#uttar pradesh elections

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In the Race for Uttar Pradesh: The Impact of Owaisi-Apna Dal Faction Alliance

The battleground of Uttar Pradesh's Lok Sabha elections is heating up, with major players like the BJP-led NDA and the Samajwadi Party-Congress INDIA bloc gearing up for a fierce contest. However, amidst the political juggernauts, the emergence of a new 'front' comprising smaller parties, including AIMIM and Apna Dal (K), has the potential to reshape the state's political landscape.

This newly formed alliance, named the 'PDM Nyay Morcha', aims to represent the marginalized sections of society, posing a direct challenge to the SP's PDA (Pichchde, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) pitch. Led by AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Apna Dal (K) leader Pallavi Patel, the alliance aims to capitalize on the sentiments of the Muslim-Yadav vote bank, traditionally aligned with the SP.

The AIMIM, although a relatively new player in Uttar Pradesh politics, has shown signs of promise, particularly in urban local body elections. Similarly, Apna Dal (K), founded as a splinter group from the BSP, has struggled to establish itself but remains a formidable force, especially in certain constituencies.

Despite their individual challenges, the combined force of AIMIM and Apna Dal (K) could potentially sway the electoral outcomes, especially in constituencies where their vote shares exceed the winning margins. While they may not emerge as major players in terms of Lok Sabha seats, their impact on the electoral dynamics cannot be overlooked.

As the political landscape continues to evolve, all eyes will be on how this alliance shapes the electoral narrative and influences the outcomes in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections.

[sudamaniparva]

i wasn't originally going to post about the indian elections (after tht ram mandir mess i'm trying to avoid that shit), but faizabad+ayodhya is too fucking funny not to post about.

gotta love how all of the ayodhya residents despite the insane bjp efforts to rebuild the ram mandir over a demolished mosque and run up their crazy nationalist agenda, went, "you bjp pricks are intolerable. goodbye." and fucking showed it.

good for you guys.

[coquettesamosa]

ykw kills me abt demonitisation 2.0 is that. this is probably a reach

but it is essentially cutting off a major source of funding for opposition parties just before there r three (four?) important state elections and obv the general election next yr

bc the way electoral bonds function is that bjp will get over 85% of the share from them while the rest goes to the opposition parties which is comparatively a much smaller amt so they hv to rely on cash (specifically 2000 rs notes) for campaign related expenses and if ur pulling them from the economy just before major elections r supposed to happen and forcing all parties to rely mostly on what funds they get from the electoral bonds and the bjp is getting massively more money than other parties..

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'Congress with Pakistan-backed parties…', CM Yogi held a rally in Ramgarh, Jammu, targeted

Praising PM Modi, the Chief Minister said, “You all trusted Modi ji, and the 500-year-old problem of Ayodhya was solved as if it was not a problem at all.” Yogi further said that the name of Congress is problem and the name of BJP is solution. Addressing a public meeting in Ramgarh assembly constituency of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a scathing attack…

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[pniindia]

Uttar Pradesh में होने वाले विधानसभा उपचुनाव को लेकर भाजपा है तैयार, इन 16 बड़े मंत्रियों को मिली जिम्मेदारी

भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने Uttar Pradesh में होने वाले विधानसभा उपचुनाव को लेकर अपनी कमर कस ली है. जगत प्रकाश नड्डा से बीजेपी के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष भूपेंद्र चौधरी और केशव प्रसाद मौर्या ने मंगलवार की रात मुलाकात की. आपको बतादें कि सभी को इस बैठक में एक साथ मिलकर सभी सीटों को जीतने और विधानसभा की 10 सीटों पर जो उपचुनाव होने वाले है उन पर फोकस करने के लिए बोला गया है. वहीं 10 सीटों पर सारे दिग्गज नेताओं को जिम्मेदारी भी दे दी गई है.

[study-buddies]

Legacy Continues: Brij Bhushan's Son Steps Up in East UP Politics

In the heart of east Uttar Pradesh, a political drama unfolds as the seasoned leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh steps aside, allowing his son Karan Bhushan Singh to take center stage. The BJP, in a strategic move, replaces Brij Bhushan with his youngest son Karan as its candidate for the Lok Sabha polls from the Kaiserganj seat, neighboring Ayodhya. Despite facing allegations of sexual harassment, Brij Bhushan’s influence looms large in the region.

Karan, a debutant in the political arena, is fighting his first election in his father’s name. The decision to field him came as a surprise, with the announcement made just one day before the nomination deadline. With the elections looming on May 20, the political landscape in Kaiserganj is heating up.

Brij Bhushan, a six-time MP and former chief of the Wrestling Federation of India, has been actively involved in the region’s development, establishing numerous educational institutions and wielding considerable influence. However, his low profile in this election is notable, with him choosing to manage his son’s campaign from behind the scenes.

Karan, inheriting his father’s interest in wrestling and shooting, invokes his father’s legacy in his campaign speeches. Despite being a new face in politics, he promises to carry forward his father’s legacy and work tirelessly for the people of Kaiserganj.

The constituency, dominated by the Brahmin community, poses a unique challenge for Karan. However, with the support of his family and party leaders, he remains optimistic about his chances. His elder brother Prateek Bhushan, the sitting BJP MLA from Gonda, actively campaigns on his behalf.

As the election approaches, the focus remains on key issues such as the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the scrapping of Article 370. While allegations against Brij Bhushan linger, they seem to have little impact on the election dynamics, with voters more concerned about broader political issues.

In the midst of it all, Karan Bhushan Singh emerges as a new face in east Uttar Pradesh politics, navigating the complex terrain with the guidance of his father and the support of his constituents. As the election unfolds, all eyes are on Kaiserganj to see how the political legacy of the Bhushan family shapes the future of the region.

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[reasonsforhope]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, by some measures, the most popular leader in the world. Prior to the 2024 election, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held an outright majority in the Lok Sabha (India’s Parliament) — one that was widely projected to grow after the vote count. The party regularly boasted that it would win 400 Lok Sabha seats, easily enough to amend India’s constitution along the party's preferred Hindu nationalist lines.

But when the results were announced on Tuesday, the BJP held just 240 seats. They not only underperformed expectations, they actually lost their parliamentary majority. While Modi will remain prime minister, he will do so at the helm of a coalition government — meaning that he will depend on other parties to stay in office, making it harder to continue his ongoing assault on Indian democracy.

So what happened? Why did Indian voters deal a devastating blow to a prime minister who, by all measures, they mostly seem to like?

India is a massive country — the most populous in the world — and one of the most diverse, making its internal politics exceedingly complicated. A definitive assessment of the election would require granular data on voter breakdown across caste, class, linguistic, religious, age, and gender divides. At present, those numbers don’t exist in sufficient detail. 

But after looking at the information that is available and speaking with several leading experts on Indian politics, there are at least three conclusions that I’m comfortable drawing.

First, voters punished Modi for putting his Hindu nationalist agenda ahead of fixing India’s unequal economy. Second, Indian voters had some real concerns about the decline of liberal democracy under BJP rule. Third, the opposition parties waged a smart campaign that took advantage of Modi’s vulnerabilities on the economy and democracy.

Understanding these factors isn’t just important for Indians. The country’s election has some universal lessons for how to beat a would-be authoritarian — ones that Americans especially might want to heed heading into its election in November.

-via Vox, June 7, 2024. Article continues below.

A new (and unequal) economy

Modi’s biggest and most surprising losses came in India’s two most populous states: Uttar Pradesh in the north and Maharashtra in the west. Both states had previously been BJP strongholds — places where the party’s core tactic of pitting the Hindu majority against the Muslim minority had seemingly cemented Hindu support for Modi and his allies.

One prominent Indian analyst, Yogendra Yadav, saw the cracks in advance. Swimming against the tide of Indian media, he correctly predicted that the BJP would fall short of a governing majority.

Traveling through the country, but especially rural Uttar Pradesh, he prophesied “the return of normal politics”: that Indian voters were no longer held spellbound by Modi’s charismatic nationalist appeals and were instead starting to worry about the way politics was affecting their lives.

Yadav’s conclusions derived in no small part from hearing voters’ concerns about the economy. The issue wasn’t GDP growth — India’s is the fastest-growing economy in the world — but rather the distribution of growth’s fruits. While some of Modi’s top allies struck it rich, many ordinary Indians suffered. Nearly half of all Indians between 20 and 24 are unemployed; Indian farmers have repeatedly protested Modi policies that they felt hurt their livelihoods.

“Everyone was talking about price rise, unemployment, the state of public services, the plight of farmers, [and] the struggles of labor,” Yadav wrote...

“We know for sure that Modi’s strongman image and brassy self-confidence were not as popular with voters as the BJP assumed,” says Sadanand Dhume, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies India. 

The lesson here isn’t that the pocketbook concerns trump identity-based appeals everywhere; recent evidence in wealthier democracies suggests the opposite is true. Rather, it’s that even entrenched reputations of populist leaders are not unshakeable. When they make errors, even some time ago, it’s possible to get voters to remember these mistakes and prioritize them over whatever culture war the populist is peddling at the moment.

Liberalism strikes back

The Indian constitution is a liberal document: It guarantees equality of all citizens and enshrines measures designed to enshrine said equality into law. The signature goal of Modi’s time in power has been to rip this liberal edifice down and replace it with a Hindu nationalist model that pushes non-Hindus to the social margins. In pursuit of this agenda, the BJP has concentrated power in Modi’s hands and undermined key pillars of Indian democracy (like a free press and independent judiciary).

Prior to the election, there was a sense that Indian voters either didn’t much care about the assault on liberal democracy or mostly agreed with it. But the BJP’s surprising underperformance suggests otherwise.

The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, published an essential post-election data analysis breaking down what we know about the results. One of the more striking findings is that the opposition parties surged in parliamentary seats reserved for members of “scheduled castes” — the legal term for Dalits, the lowest caste grouping in the Hindu hierarchy.

Caste has long been an essential cleavage in Indian politics, with Dalits typically favoring the left-wing Congress party over the BJP (long seen as an upper-caste party). Under Modi, the BJP had seemingly tamped down on the salience of class by elevating all Hindus — including Dalits — over Muslims. Yet now it’s looking like Dalits were flocking back to Congress and its allies. Why?

According to experts, Dalit voters feared the consequences of a BJP landslide. If Modi’s party achieved its 400-seat target, they’d have more than enough votes to amend India’s constitution. Since the constitution contains several protections designed to promote Dalit equality — including a first-in-the-world affirmative action system — that seemed like a serious threat to the community. It seems, at least based on preliminary data, that they voted accordingly.

The Dalit vote is but one example of the ways in which Modi’s brazen willingness to assail Indian institutions likely alienated voters.

Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest and most electorally important state, was the site of a major BJP anti-Muslim campaign. It unofficially kicked off its campaign in the UP city of Ayodhya earlier this year, during a ceremony celebrating one of Modi’s crowning achievements: the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of a former mosque that had been torn down by Hindu nationalists in 1992. 

Yet not only did the BJP lose UP, it specifically lost the constituency — the city of Faizabad — in which the Ayodhya temple is located. It’s as direct an electoral rebuke to BJP ideology as one can imagine.

In Maharashtra, the second largest state, the BJP made a tactical alliance with a local politician, Ajit Pawar, facing serious corruption charges. Voters seemingly punished Modi’s party for turning a blind eye to Pawar’s offenses against the public trust. Across the country, Muslim voters turned out for the opposition to defend their rights against Modi’s attacks.

The global lesson here is clear: Even popular authoritarians can overreach.

By turning “400 seats” into a campaign slogan, an all-but-open signal that he intended to remake the Indian state in his illiberal image, Modi practically rang an alarm bell for constituencies worried about the consequences. So they turned out to stop him en masse.

The BJP’s electoral underperformance is, in no small part, the direct result of their leader’s zealotry going too far.

Return of the Gandhis? 

Of course, Modi’s mistakes might not have mattered had his rivals failed to capitalize. The Indian opposition, however, was far more effective than most observers anticipated.

Perhaps most importantly, the many opposition parties coordinated with each other. Forming a united bloc called INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance), they worked to make sure they weren’t stealing votes from each other in critical constituencies, positioning INDIA coalition candidates to win straight fights against BJP rivals.

The leading party in the opposition bloc — Congress — was also more put together than people thought. Its most prominent leader, Rahul Gandhi, was widely dismissed as a dilettante nepo baby: a pale imitation of his father Rajiv and grandmother Indira, both former Congress prime ministers. Now his critics are rethinking things.

“I owe Rahul Gandhi an apology because I seriously underestimated him,” says Manjari Miller, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Miller singled out Gandhi’s yatras (marches) across India as a particularly canny tactic. These physically grueling voyages across the length and breadth of India showed that he wasn’t just a privileged son of Indian political royalty, but a politician willing to take risks and meet ordinary Indians where they were. During the yatras, he would meet directly with voters from marginalized groups and rail against Modi’s politics of hate.

“The persona he’s developed — as somebody kind, caring, inclusive, [and] resolute in the face of bullying — has really worked and captured the imagination of younger India,” says Suryanarayan. “If you’ve spent any time on Instagram Reels, [you’ll see] an entire generation now waking up to Rahul Gandhi’s very appealing videos.”

This, too, has a lesson for the rest of the world: Tactical innovation from the opposition matters even in an unfair electoral context.

There is no doubt that, in the past 10 years, the BJP stacked the political deck against its opponents. They consolidated control over large chunks of the national media, changed campaign finance law to favor themselves, suborned the famously independent Indian Electoral Commission, and even intimidated the Supreme Court into letting them get away with it. 

The opposition, though, managed to find ways to compete even under unfair circumstances. Strategic coordination between them helped consolidate resources and ameliorate the BJP cash advantage. Direct voter outreach like the yatra helped circumvent BJP dominance in the national media.

To be clear, the opposition still did not win a majority. Modi will have a third term in office, likely thanks in large part to the ways he rigged the system in his favor.

Yet there is no doubt that the opposition deserves to celebrate. Modi’s power has been constrained and the myth of his invincibility wounded, perhaps mortally. Indian voters, like those in Brazil and Poland before them, have dealt a major blow to their homegrown authoritarian faction.

And that is something worth celebrating.

-via Vox, June 7, 2024.

[lok-shakti]

UP By Election Results Live: यूपी की एक लोकसभा और दो विधानसभा सीटों पर मतगणना आज 8 बजे से, तैयारी पूरी

UP By Election Results Live: यूपी की एक लोकसभा और दो विधानसभा सीटों पर मतगणना आज 8 बजे से, तैयारी पूरी

07:32 AM, 08-Dec-2022 सुबह 8 से शुरू होगी मतगणना मुख्य निर्वाचन अधिकारी अजय कुमार शुक्ला ने बताया कि सुबह 8 से मतगणना शुरू होगी। उन्होंने बताया कि मैनपुरी लोकसभा क्षेत्र के करहल, मैनपुरी, भोगांव और किशनी विधानसभा क्षेत्र के बूथों की मतगणना मैनपुरी में होगी। जसवंतनगर विधानसभा क्षेत्र की मतगणना इट��वा में होगी। 06:55 AM, 08-Dec-2022 भाजपा ने किया बड़े अंतर से जीत का दावा भाजपा प्रदेश अध्यक्ष…

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उत्तर प्रदेश की जनता भी मतदान करके रखेगी सम्मान

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उत्तर प्रदेश के 15-खतौली विधानसभा क्षेत्र में उपचुनाव का कार्यक्रम

उत्तर प्रदेश के 15-खतौली विधानसभा क्षेत्र में उपचुनाव का कार्यक्रम

निर्वाचन आयोग ने उत्तर प्रदेश के निम्नलिखित विधानसभा क्षेत्र में रिक्तियों को भरने के लिए उपचुनाव कराने का निर्णय लिया है। क्रम सं. राज्‍य का नाम विधानसभा क्षेत्र संख्‍या और नाम कारण   1. उत्‍तर प्रदेश 15-खतौली विधायक श्री विक्रम सिंह अयोग्‍य घोषित उपचुनाव का कार्यक्रम इस प्रकार है: विधानसभा क्षेत्र के लिए उपचुनाव का कार्यक्रम मतदान कार्यक्रम कार्यक्रम राजपत्र अधिसूचना जारी करने की तिथि 10…

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Political News: हरियाणा, तेलंगाना और उत्तर प्रदेश में भाजपा ने उतारे ये दिग्गज, देखिए लिस्ट

Political News: हरियाणा, तेलंगाना और उत्तर प्रदेश में भाजपा ने उतारे ये दिग्गज, देखिए लिस्ट

दिल्ली: भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने हरियाणा, तेलंगाना और उत्तर प्रदेश की विधानसभा सीटों पर होने वाले उपचुनाव के लिए तीन उम्मीदवारों के नाम जारी कर दिए हैं। इन सीटों पर तीन नवंबर, 2022 को वोटिंग होने वाली है। Rewari News: वाल्मीकि जयंती पर निकाली शोभा यात्राबता दें कि चुनाव आयोग ने तीन अक्तूबर को छह राज्यों में सात विधानसभा सीटों पर उपचुनाव की तारीख की घोषणा कर दी थी। इनमें महाराष्ट्र, हरियाणा, उत्तर…

[allthegeopolitics]

At least 33 Indian polling staff died on the last day of voting from heatstroke in just one state, says a top election official, after scorching temperatures gripped swaths of the country. Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer for the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where voting in the seventh and final stage of the election ended on Saturday, said 33 polling personnel died due to the heat. The figure included security guards and sanitation staff. “A monetary compensation of 1.5 million rupees [$18,000] will be provided to the families of the deceased,” Rinwa told reporters on Sunday (Jun 2).

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[metamatar]

I mentioned Azad and that I was excited about his election in a post before. Bhim Army is a new horizon for Dalit politics in India – fiercely engaged with muslims and the poor, beyond legislative reservation victories.

Longer profile of Chandrashekhar Azad "Ravan" from 2017.