Rajendra Kumar Pandey, AnyTV, Ayodhya
Published by: Pankaj Srivastava
Updated Thu, 24 Feb 2022 01:00 AM IST
Summary
Times have changed, circumstances have changed, the construction of Shri Ram temple has also started, but this issue still remains in the undercurrent of politics. The script of victory and defeat in this election is an attempt to be written in this background.
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There is once again a battle of ideas in Ayodhya. After the temple-mosque dispute came to the fore, the decision of victory and defeat in the elections here has been taking place on the background of the dispute. Regardless of the timing, polarization at the last moment of the election paves the way for victory. Times have changed, circumstances have changed, the construction of Shri Ram temple has also started, but this issue still remains in the undercurrent of politics. The script of victory and defeat in this election is an attempt to be written in this background.
Ayodhya, which is at the center of the country’s politics, is again in the same role. Leaders of many parties like BJP, BSP, AAP have declared and undeclared the conch shell of the assembly elections from here. Tried to redeem Ayodhya. It is clear that Ayodhya is still flowing rapidly in the undercurrent of politics. Ayodhya has become a question of the nose for everyone. The BJP wants to give a message of its views and political hold in the changed circumstances by maintaining dominance over it.
However, for the political occupation of Ayodhya, all the major parties have fielded their warriors. BJP, which has retained its hold for decades, has put forward MLA Ved Prakash Gupta again, while SP has fielded Tej Narayan Pandey Pawan, who was unsuccessful in the last election. BSP has fielded new candidate Ravi Maurya, while Congress has fielded Rita Maurya, a woman candidate after nine years. Excited after the darshan-worship of Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal, AAP has fielded candidates here along with other seats in the district.
BJP and SP candidates have long political experience. BJP candidate Ved Prakash Gupta is in the fray for the fourth time. He had entered the arena in the 2007 elections on the SP ticket and in the 2012 elections on the ticket of BSP, but lost both the times. Gupt entered the fray on a BJP ticket in 2017 after changing parties and reached the assembly. SP candidate Tej Narayan Pandey is a product of Pawan Lucknow University student politics. The party made him a candidate from Ayodhya assembly constituency in the 2012 elections and he won the election.
This was the first time that the saffron brigade was defeated in Ayodhya after 1991, but lost in the 2017 elections on an SP ticket. Once again SP has made him its candidate from this VIP seat. BSP candidate Ravi Maurya is a leader of the party’s cadre. He has come to the electoral fray for the first time, so this is also the first political test of Rita Maurya from Congress. BJP and SP have always been face to face in the battle of elections. This time too there are chances of a fight between these two. Congress and BSP are trying to get into the main contest by making it triangular. BJP candidate Ved Prakash Gupta, who has the identity of a leader of the old generation, is courteous, soft-spoken and friendly, but in the last five years there has been little talk among the general voters.
In the eyes of the common people, SP candidate Tej Narayan Pandey has remained tactful, articulate and among the people. He is said to speak excessively and fabricate issues. But, the effect of the displeasure during his tenure as MLA is still being perceived. Dr. Nirmal Khatri, who was an MLA from here, has been a minister of state in the state, two-time MP and former state president of Congress, then several-time MLA from BJP Lallu Singh, a minister in the state government, two-time MP along with many big posts of the organization. have lived on. (conversation)
2017 election results
Ved Prakash Gupta, BJP 1,07014
Tej Narayan, SP 56,574
Mo. Bazmee Siddiqui, BSP 39,554
vote count
3,81,532
total electorate
brahmin 62 thousand
Thakur 34 thousand
Yadav 37 thousand
Muslim 55 thousand
Vaishya 51 thousand
Nishad 30 thousand
Dalit 42 thousand
Kayastha 18 thousand,
backward class 33 thousand
another 16 thousand