From family to foes to friends again; Will the “Uncle-Nephew” combo work in UP

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav announced a pre-poll alliance with his uncle Shivpal Yadav’s party Paragtisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) yesterday marking an end to a family feud that began in 2016 during the run-up to the 2017 Vidhan elections.

The differences between the two heavyweights began when Akhilesh Yadav expelled Deepak Singhal, who was a minister in the then-UP cabinet and was also a close friend of Shivpal Yadav. This act of the SP supremo was considered to be an act against his uncle and the following day the then SP chief and Akhilesh Yadav’s father, Mulayam Singh, replaced his own son with Shivpal Yadav as the state’s party chief which came out as a huge shock to the state CM Akhilesh Yadav. In retaliation to this. Akhilesh Yadav then stripped Shivpal Yadav off the ministerial berths that he had been holding in the state government which widened the rift in the family further. As a result Shivpal Yadav, along with his wife and his son, resigned from all the party posts which they were holding and broke away to give birth to their own political party “Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia”.

It is important to note that both these political parties did not perform well during the last Vidhan Sabha elections of the state in 2017 and also the general elections of 2019.  In the aftermath of their split, during the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections, the SP which had a stronghold in the Etawah-Kannauj-Mainpuri-Auriya belt lost owing to the split in the Yadav votes. Interestingly, on the other hand, Shivpal Yadav won the family’s home seat of Jaswantnagar from Etawah by a margin of 53,000 votes. Both the SP and the PSPL lost the other seats from this belt to the BJP, which came out as big winners owing to the differences in the Yadav family. The consequences of the split in the SP were visible in the 2019 LS elections as well when the party lost from Firozabad, with Shivpal Yadav playing the spoiler from here cutting the votes of the SP and paving the way for the BJP to win from here. Both the SP and the PSPL emerged as losers from here, SP being the bigger one as Firozabad was their stronghold since 2009.

So now that foes have become friends, will they wrest back the state from the grand and mighty BJP? The answer to this question may look complex at the moment as we are yet to know about the seat-sharing method which will be adopted by the two but minus this factor, the chances of these two parties winning look bleak. Apart from the family reunion, Akhilesh Yadav has carefully stitched an alliance between his party, the Suheledev Bhartiya Samaj Party, the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and the Mahan Dal, hoping to put an end to the BJP wave in the state and it will be interesting to see how this alliance will fold out. From the SP and their alliance partners’ perspective, yes, the Yadav votes will not be divided during this time around and the possibility of candidates being denied tickets by SP contesting under PSPL tickets also might be prevented, which will, in turn, reduce any chances of a rift in the alliance but the million-dollar question still remains, will this grand alliance be able to dent the immense popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi in the state? The alliance between the SP, the PSPL, the RLD, and other regional parties in the state may bring down BJP’s vote share in the north Indian state but there is a feeling that these elections will be fought on merit rather than the caste census and BJP’s report card from here looks fairly good compared to that of the previous government. Yes, the BJP’s UP government has attracted much criticism during their tenure but there is a sense of belief which the people have in the BJP in the state whereas the same sense of belief is absent when it concerns the other two or any other political party in the state for that matter.

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Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Uttar Pradesh in month of February to March 2022 to elect 403 members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The term of current assembly elected in 2017 will expire on 14 March 2022. Yogi Adityanath is to be the incumbent Chief Minister at the time of the election.

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Date Published	Polling agency	NDA	SP+	BSP	UPA	Others
13-Nov-21	ABP-Cvoter	213-221	152-160	16-20	NA	NA
08-Oct-21	ABP-Cvoter	241-249	130-138	15-19	6	0-4
03-Sep-21	ABP-Cvoter	259-267	109-117	14	6	8
18-Mar-21	ABP-Cvoter	284-294	54-64	33-43	6	14

 

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Date	Agency	UPA	AAP	SAD+	NDA
11-Dec	ABP News C-Voter	39-45	50-56	17-23	0-3
12-Nov	ABP News C-Voter	42-50	47-53	16-24	0-1
08-Oct	ABP News C-Voter	39-47	49-55	17-25	0-1
04-Sep	ABP News C-Voter	38-46	51-57	16-24	0-1
19-Mar	ABP News C-Voter	43-49	51-57	10.00	0-3

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Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Uttarakhand in February 2022 to elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The term of current assembly elected in 2017 will expire on 23 March 2022

 Poll Event    Schedule
Notification Date    TBD
Last Date for filing nomination    TBD
Scrutiny of nomination    TBD
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination    TBD
Date of Poll    TBD
Date of Counting of Votes    TBD

Assembly elections in Uttarakhand, where BJP is set for a battle against Congress, has been declared to be held on 15th february

Voting to be held on February 15, 2017 - In single phase.
Counting of votes: March 11, 2017

Poll Event	Single Phase (ALL 70 ACs)
Date of Notification	20.01.2017 (FRI)
Last Date of Making	27.01.2017 (FRI)
Nominations
Scrutiny of Nominations	28.01.2017 (SAT)
Withdrawal of	30.01.2017 (MON)
Candidature
Date of Poll	15.02.2017 (WED)
Date of Counting	11.03.2017 (SAT)
Date of Completion	15.03.2017 (WED)

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Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Goa in month of February 2022 to elect 40 members of the Goa Legislative Assembly.

The tenure of Goa Legislative Assembly is scheduled to be end on 15 March 2022. The previous assembly elections were held in February 2017. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Manohar Parrikar becoming Chief Minister.

The schedule will be announced by the Election Commission in December 2021.

Poll Event    Schedule
Notification Date    TBD
Last Date for filing nomination    TBD
Scrutiny of nomination    TBD
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination    TBD
Date of Poll    TBD
Date of Counting of Votes    TBD

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