Modi and Yogi are not the only big reason behind the big victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has won a resounding victory in Uttar Pradesh for the second time in a row. This winning script was meticulously composed behind the scenes. How did the BJP conquer a tough fort like Lakhimpur Kheri? How did the ‘Girl Hoon Ladge Hoon’ campaign join the BJP’s victory, not for the Congress? How UP’s Yadav-Muslim factor became Modi-Yogi?
Political experts say that despite all the efforts of the opposition, the BJP took the public with it very cleanly and wrote a new victory in UP. Although Yogi’s 10 ministers (including Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya) may have lost in this victory of BJP, but managed to get power with a majority. His wounds have also been filled with the historic victory of the BJP.
New meaning of MY in UP
The historic victory of BJP in UP has given definition to many old proverbs. One is the M-Y factor which has changed from Muslim-Yadav to Modi-Yogi factor of the Samajwadi Party. The BJP has proved with this victory that the anti-incumbency wave has not affected it much.
The wave changed in Lakhimpur Kheri
Before the elections, where anti-BJP wave was going on in Lakhimpur Kheri, it was believed that the BJP may lose eight seats here. But, defying all the waves, the BJP defeated the opposition by winning all the eight seats. Let us inform that in the month of December last year, four farmers were killed in the car of Ashish, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni. All these farmers were protesting against the agricultural movement. There was a lot of ruckus on this at that time. Even just before the election, the opposition was on the front foot on Ashish’s bail. But after the election, the BJP stopped speaking to everyone.
Women power became the charioteer of victory
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath both acknowledged the role of “nari shakti (female voters)” in these elections. Of the 48 women candidates who won on BJP tickets, 29 candidates are proof of this. This is the largest ever number of women MLAs of BJP. Women contestants as well as women voters played a key role in shaping the BJP’s narrative that focused on “goonda se suraksha”.
Allies became the third largest party
There should also be talk on the BJP’s seat distribution plan in the elections. BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) won 12 of the 17 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. It emerged as the third largest party in the state after BJP and Samajwadi Party. In 2017, Apna Dal (Sonelal) contested nine seats in alliance with the BJP and won all.
Increase your strongholds in many seats
The BJP won all the nine assembly seats in Gorakhpur. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting his first assembly election from Gorakhpur urban seat, won by over one lakh votes. The party also won all 19 assembly seats in Bundelkhand region and all eight assembly seats in Hardoi district. In Hardoi, the BJP made a big difference by defeating the influential Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal. In Sonbhadra too, the party won all the four seats. While winning eight out of nine assembly seats in Sitapur.
Modi and Rajnath’s stronghold also won
In Defense Minister Rajnath Singh’s Lok Sabha constituency Lucknow, the BJP won seven of the nine assembly seats. In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, the BJP won seven seats and its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) got one. The BJP won eight of the nine assembly seats in Bareilly and seven each in Deoria, Shahjahanpur and Gonda.