BJP will win in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017,predicts Rajdeep Sardesai

BJP will win in UP Assembly Elections 2017,predicts Rajdeep Sardesai

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Predicting the outcome of an Uttar Pradesh election can be injurious to health. In 1993, extensively covering a UP election for the first time, when my editor asked me for an opinion, I promptly claimed that a Ram w

ave was sweeping across the state against the backdrop of the Babri masjid demolition.The seven-phased polling for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017 will conclude on March 8. Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results 2017, which will be declared on March 11, renowned journalist Rajdeep Sardesai predicted a victory of Bharatiya Janata Party. Rajdeep Sardesai.

In 2014, the BJP-led NDA got 42 per cent of the vote and an astonishing 73 of 80 Lok Sabha seats. While that was an unusual ‘wave’ election, the fact is even a highly unlikely 10 per cent decline in the BJP vote could be enough to give it a leadership position in the state. The SP swept to power in UP in 2012 with 29 per cent of the vote, while in 2007, the BSP got a majority with 30 per cent of the vote.

It was the biggest rally ever in the history of Independent India 

Rajdeep Sardesai also declined the idea that the alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress can easily defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.Some analysts have compared UP with the 2015 Bihar assembly elections, claiming that the SP-Congress ‘gathbandhan’ has changed the electoral numbers game in the state. But this is a false comparison,” Sardesai stated. “Had the two principal players Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav fought together like Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad did in Bihar, the BJP would have struggled to make an impact. The Congress, by contrast, in UP is still a ‘kamzor kadi’ or weak link in the alliance.

Modi has struck a chord within the Indo-Gangetic plain. In his adopted village of Jayapur close to Varanasi, the road has been washed away, the solarbatteries are taken. The toilets don’t have water supply, and yet, each villager one meets, as well as in Dalit bastis, says they’re going to vote for ‘Modiji’. In Varanasi’s paan bhandar, traders admit demonetization has hurt them, however they still chant ‘Har Har Modi’. And on the banks of the Ganga at Assi Ghat, a mahant says the Namami Gange project is eyewash

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