Assembly Political Election: Goa and also Uttarakhand are seeing a single-phase voting. Forty seats of Goa and 70 seats of hill state are mosting likely to polls.

Fifty-five constituencies spread out across nine districts of Uttar Pradesh are voting today, amid a significantly raucous, polarized campaign. Ballot is additionally being held in two various other BJP-ruled states, Goa and also Uttarakhand.

Below are the top 10 factors in this huge tale:

Till 9 am, the ordinary ballot across the 55 seats in UP was 9.45 per cent. In the politically considerable state, special emphasis is on 8 delicate constituencies throughout Bijnor, Sambhal and Saharanpur districts. The areas– taken into consideration strongholds of the Samajwadi Party– have a sizeable Muslim population.

Goa and also Uttarakhand are seeing a single-phase voting. Forty seats of Goa and 70 seats of capital state are going to surveys.

Of the 55 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP had actually won 38 in 2017, the Samajwadi Event won 15 and the Congress won 2.

The prominent faces objecting to in this stage include senior Samajwadi Event leader Azam Khan, Dharam Singh Saini, the BJP priest that switched to Samajwadi Event, as well as the state’s Finance Preacher Suresh Khanna.

Azam Khan has actually been fielded from his stronghold Rampur and is objecting to the surveys from behind the bars. His son Abdullah Azam is contesting from Suar seat against Haider Ali Khan. Haider Ali Khan, a member of the erstwhile royal household of Rampur, is the grand son of previous MP Noor Bano, who is trying his good luck on the ticket of Apna Dal (Sonelal), a BJP ally. He is the only Muslim prospect revealed by the BJP-led partnership in UP thus far.

In Uttarakhand, the key prospects consist of Chief Priest Pushkar Singh Dhami and also his cabinet associates Satpal Maharaj, Subodh Uniyal, Arvind Pandey and also Dhan Singh Rawat. Popular faces from the Congress consist of previous chief preacher Harish Rawat and also state Congress principal Ganesh Godiyal. Arvind Kejriwal’s Aaam Aadmi Party is likewise contesting in Uttarakhand.

Though a little seaside state with only 40 seats, the competition in Goa has actually attracted the maximum eyeballs after UP, with the shock outcome in 2017, when the Congress won the maximum variety of seats, yet the BJP formed the federal government. This time, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Celebration and also Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress are also in fray, with intend to increase their impact past Delhi and also Bengal.

The large fight will certainly be in Panaji, where Utpal Parrikar, a BJP rebel and also the son of late Manohar Parrikar, contests as an Independent against Atanasio Monserrate of the BJP. The Congress has fielded Elvis Gomes, a former politician as well as AAP’s chief pastoral candidate in 2017. AAP has actually fielded Valmiki Naik for the third time.

The Trinamool Congress has been aggressively recruiting in Goa– its development coming primarily at the cost of the Congress. The political election, however, comes amid a growing rift with Principal Priest Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and also the old guard. Caught in the middle is political election planner Prashant Kishor’s IPAC, which is creating the project in Goa.

The Aam Aadmi Celebration, which did not win any kind of seats in the 2017 political elections in Goa, asserts they are well prepared this time around. Given the history of fast defections in the state, all 40 AAP candidates have authorized a loyalty sworn statement, which can be legitimately enforceable by any type of citizen.

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Last Updated: 14 Feb 2022