Assembly Elections 2022 Results Highlights: 'Sun will set on dynastic politics,' Modi's dig at Cong after saffron wave in states

The ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has finally re-written history in the country's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, where an incumbent political party has been voted back to power in succession after a gap of nearly four decades.

. Amarinder Singh, 79, was defeated by Aam Aadmi Party candidate Ajit Pal Singh Kohli from Patiala (Urban) by a margin of 19,873 votes, according to the poll results declared on Thursday.

Amarinder Singh had floated his party after quitting the Congress last year owing to his unceremonious exit as the CM.

. The ruling BJP, on the other hand, maintains that it will retain power in the hill state after its remarkable performances in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

. Of its 20 wins, 11 imports from the Congress, Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and independents, seven original BJP partymen and two new faces make the tally, including five Christian candidates. Several of the BJP's Christian candidates, who had defected from the Congress, were defeated by their voters.

. In the political sphere, a vacuum does not last for long. It helps a new force shoot up and, consequently, change the scenario altogether. In this round of Assembly polls, Punjab has proved this by presenting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with a huge victory.

. A myth was nurtured for nearly three decades that any chief minister of Uttar Pradesh who visited Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar district was doomed to go out of power.

. Beyond the nation's most populous state, the extraordinary show by the BJP in Manipur and a respectable win in Uttarakhand also auger well for the national party. For in the end, after a year of economic downturn and joblessness, the party has done phenomenally well in this round of elections. It also shows that the leadership of the BJP also still enjoys great credibility among the voting masses, even as the other national party, the Congress, seems to have opened another chapter of their collapse.

. When Priyanka announced 40 per cent reservation for women in tickets, many political pundits thought it would be a game-changer for the Congress

. "In the coming days AAP will become a national force...the party will emerge as the national and natural replacement of Congress," Chadha said while addressing party workers at a rented accommodation of the party's chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann in Sangrur.

. In the political sphere, a vacuum does not last for long. It helps a new force shoot up and, consequently, change the scenario altogether. In this round of Assembly polls, Punjab has proved this by presenting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with a huge victory.

. NPP was a partner of the BJP-led government in Manipur since 2017 and helped BJP wrest power from Congress in 2017

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. Rawat is behind by a margin of 16,600 votes.

. While the Congress may officially remain a 'national party', its defeats in what is considered the semifinals for the Lok Sabha polls raises questions about its credentials to be a part of the Opposition front against BJP being forged for the 2024 general elections.

. BJP's Panaji Candidate Atanasio Monserrate celebrates his victory with party workers outside the counting centre of Goa Assembly Elections at Altinho in Panaji. Credit: IANS Photo

. For AAP, it is positive but for the main Opposition party in the country that governed the country as recently as eight years ago besides having a government in several states, it depicts an existential crisis, as the results of the latest edition of Assembly elections poured in.

. Former CM and Punjab Lok Congress founder, Captain Amarinder Singh loses from Patiala by a margin of 19,873 votes.

.AAP's Bhagwant Mann says he will take oath as Punjab CM in Bhagat Singh's ancestral village Khatkarkalan, not in Raj Bhawan. The story of this edition of Assembly election is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) – the Arvind Kejriwal-led party that has spread its wing beyond Delhi for the first time with a result in Punjab that catapults its national ambitions to a new height.

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. This is Yogi Adityanath's first full fledged contest for an Assembly seat from his home turf, from where he had contested and won the Lok Sabha seat for multiple terms.

According to the ABP C-Voter exit poll, the ruling BJP is set to retain power in Uttar Pradesh with a tally of 236 seats.

. Sanquelim, Panaji and Benaulim will be crucial constituencies for Goa this year. CM Pramod Sawant is fighting to secure his seat for BJP in Sanquelim while Utpal Parrikar is contesting as an independent candidate in Panaji. Churchill Alemao is seeking one more term from Benaulim but on a TMC ticket.

In the 2017 elections, the Congress had emerged as the single largest party winning 17 seats, but the BJP had pipped them to power after roping in the support of regional parties and independent MLAs.

In the 2022 elections, the MGP joined hands with the Trinamool Congress, while the Goa Forward Party (GFP) entered into a pre-poll alliance with the Congress.

. Punjab

Charanjit SIngh Channi's constituencies Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur will be followed closely. Channi has been declared by the Congress as its CM face. The party is hoping to capitalise on the Dalit narrative with Channi's candidature.

AAP's CM candidate Bhagwant Mann will be contesting from Dhuri. Jalalabad constituency from which Shiromani Akali Dal's Sukhbir Singh Badal is fighting will be crucial too. SAD is fighting in alliance with BSP.

Amritsar East from which Sidhu is contesting, Lambi that is Parkash Singh Badal's constituency and Patiala from where former CM Amarinder Singh is fighting are prominent seats that will be keenly watched.

. Uttar Pradesh

Most keenly watched constituencies in this election will be Gorakhpur Urban from where Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is contesting and Karhal from where his chief rival, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav will fight.

Newly-formed political outfit Azad Samaj Party's Chandrashekhar Azad is also fighting from Gorakhpur. Meanwhile, BJP has pitted SP Singh Baghel against Akhilesh in Karhal.

Varanasi district, from where PM Modi contested in the Lok Sabha election, is also crucial as this remains a BJP stronghold even in the legislative assembly.

Lakhimpur will be a keenly watched constituency after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which Union Minister Ashish Mishra's son was released after being charged for mowing down protesting farmers. Rae Bareli, under MP Sonia Gandhi, will also be observed. BJP's Aditi Singh is fighting from here.

Amethi, currently under MLA Garima Singh from BJP, will be another crucial constituency

Samajwadi Party's Dara Singh Chauhan, contesting from Ghosi and UP Congress Committee leader Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj are other prominent candidates.

Eyes are also on Unnao, from where the Congress has fielded Asha Singh, whose husband was killed and daughter raped in Unnao.

Shirathu from where BJP's Keshav Prasad Maurya is contesting and Fazilnagar from which BJP turncoat Swami Prasad Maurya is fighting are other important ones observers will be looking out for.

Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party President Om Prakash Rajbhar's fort in Zahoorabad will be crucial too as SBSP is fighting in alliance with SP.

Another important candidate is Shivpal Singh Yadav, leader of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party, from Jaswantnagar Assembly seat in Etawah.

. Uttar Pradesh, a BJP bastion, held polling in seven phases starting February 10. Observers are closely eyeing this election as a litmus test for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In Punjab, Congress is fighting tooth and nail after infighting that resulted in Amarinder Singh's exit and Channi being relegated to the CM throne. The BJP is battling anti-incumbency in Goa with late former CM Manohar Parrikar's son, Utpal Parrikar, fighting as an independent candidate, while TMC and Congress are rushing to make alliances with local parties in case of a hung assembly. In Uttarakhand and Manipur, the contest will be between the BJP and the congress and their alliances with local parties.

. "We have spoken to everyone who has fought against the BJP. We know we will get an absolute majority, but still in the interest of making this government truly one of the people of Goa, we want to take all political parties together," he said.

. Apprehending 'poaching' by the BJP in the event of a close finish in Uttarakhand as predicted by a majority of the exit polls, the Congress plans to shift its legislators to hotels and resorts in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, which are ruled by the grand old party.

''We don't want to take any risk...BJP can stoop to any level to form its government....we need to be on the alert,'' said a senior Congress leader in Dehradun on Wednesday.

. The Trinamool is tight-lipped about any moves and says that only when results are out, the party will decide what to do as it maintains equidistant from both the BJP and the Congress.

. Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Choudhary on Tuesday rejected the exit poll predictions of the BJP's return to power in Uttar Pradesh.

. One of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s strongholds and home to Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha seat, the state is significant in navigating the course of national politics. Here’s a look at five key factors that influence the main players in fray.

. Even as most exit polls predict a comfortable victory for the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh on March 10 with the party predicted to secure over 200 seats in the 403-seat legislative assembly, many issues challenge the BJP’s standing in the state. A significant fall in the number of seats projected for the BJP or the apparent rise in popularity of its chief opponent, Akhilesh hints at resentment towards the ruling party in different parts of the state.

. Strong rooms are opened in the presence of the candidates or their representatives, returning officers and EC Special Observers. This process is filmed. The Control Units (CU) of the EVMs are brought to the counting tables under continuous CCTV coverage. The unique ID number of each CU and the signed seal are verified and shown to the polling agent of the candidates before taking out. At the press of a button on the CU, the votes secured by each candidate are displayed against his name on the EVM. The numbers are recorded on the results sheet.

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