In the 2017 assembly elections, Congress was third in Ghatampur (representation)
Lucknow:
A day after the declaration of the results of the Uttar Pradesh assembly bypasses, in which Congress failed to win any of the seven seats, the party took comfort in its presence in two constituencies where it was found finalist.
Congress candidates Arti Bajpai in Bangarmau and Kripa Shankar in Ghatampur came second after BJP in bypolls.
“There may not be a tectonic shift towards the party in the assembly bypolls, but there is a gradual and visible shift among voters from state to Congress,” the spokesperson said. speech of UP Congress, Ashok Singh.
“We are number two by two places compared to BSP, which only finished number two at Bulandshahr,” he told PTI on Wednesday.
In the 2017 assembly elections, Congress was third in Ghatampur. In Bangarmau, he then extended his support to the SP, whose candidate had finished second.
The ruling BJP retained six of the seven seats, and the Samajwadi Party clung to the one it held before the by-pass on November 3 began.
The by-elections were held against the backdrop of a campaign led by the opposition – especially Congress – on the law and order situation in the state led by the Bharatiya Janata party.
AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has repeatedly attacked Yogi Adityanath’s government over the Hathras case in which a Dalit woman died after alleged gang rape.
Compared to 2017, the BJP’s share of the vote fell slightly in four of the six constituencies won.
But he still collected 36.73% of the votes polled in the seven constituencies, against a meager 7.53% in favor of Congress.
The share of PS votes in bypolls was 23.61% and that of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj party was 18.97%.
Army chief Bhim Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj party has since contested Bulandshahr to test its electoral popularity. Its candidate took third place with a 6.69% vote share, just one shade below the Congress average of the seven seats.
BJP’s share of votes fell in Bangarmau, Deoria, Ghatampur and Tundla, and was close to its 2017 performance in Naugawan. His share improved at Bulandshahr.
The Samajwadi Party won Malhani, retaining its seat in the bypolls. He got 35.45 percent of the vote in that constituency, improving his past performance by two percentage points.
This despite an improvement in the vote share of his main rival, independent candidate Dhananjay Singh. He got 33.22% of the vote this time, up from 23.37% of the vote in 2017, when he ran for the same seat as the Nishad party candidate.
BSP’s best performance this time was at Bulandshahr, where its candidate finished second, at the same place he reached in 2017.
In 2017, the SP and Congress fought together under their seat-sharing deal for Uttar Pradesh.
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