Uttar Pradesh is India’s most populous state, sending 80 Members of Parliament to the Lok Sabha. The state is also known for being home to the largest number of Indian prime ministers. Leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Charan Singh, and Narendra Modi have all won general elections from this state, shaping the course of Indian politics on both national and international fronts.
The state came into existence in 1950 after the United Provinces were renamed Uttar Pradesh. In the year 2000, another state, Uttarakhand, was carved out of UP to give representation to the Himalayan regions in the state. Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, and the Allahabad High Court is the highest judicial body in the state.
The author of the article is himself a victim of presenting the statistics to support his point of view. Why have the percentages of only the BJP been quoted? A telltale slip of “70% seats won by independents” is indicative of the fact that organised political parties may not be attaching too much importance to these elections. It would be interesting to see of all the percentages are presented, whether the narrative presented by Mr. Ashutosh still holds.
Although AAP is protesting against the use of EVMs, which is a boon of technology; they have not been able to tamper any EVM while it is in use in an actual election. They have nothing to add to the improvement in the process by the use of the paper trail.
There is no mention of the true picture of the elections in U>P> either in the leading Newspapers or the ever in frenzy embedded anchors of the electronic media. The creation of less than truthful perceptions are bound to rebound one day.
Many reasons could be there for these results. 1. Mor fragmented are voters in these elections. Many wards could be anti-BJP voters like Yadavs and Muslims dominated. Many independent candidates could fragment votes. Finding very clean and honest candidates is a problem. Also, the party can not focus on at every location. Paper voting can also be fraud-prone in anti-BJP wards
The problem with The Print,Scroll and The Wire is that they always negate and criticise the BJP bcz their entire survival depends upon anti- BJP stand and pro Congress n left.They should b realistic unlike the so called pseudosickular parties who oppose the BJP for the sake of opposing.
Every election is different values than previous one hence do not compare it with each other.
Were elections contested on party symbol .How are you deciding that BJP or other party win the elections. Are you a journalist or p????????.
This is called impartial news reporting.
I would like to say thankyou to reporter Ashutosh for getting deep down into it.
The political understanding of the column writer is very superficial and his LSCM of understanding of the electoral politics dynamics. It is quite phenomenal the success rate of the dominant sharply increases as the constituency size increases. This is actually the case here not the EVM. Let me explain it, in a constituency out of 100 polled votes, say party A secures 55 votes and party B secures 45 votes (assuming only two parties contesting). Then, A will win with a big margin of 10% votes.
Now, each vote represents one constituent ward, thus total 100 wards. With the same vote base of 55 votes party A will win only 55 wards and B will take away 45 wards.
Therefore, with 55% votes A will get100% success at higher level say chairman or mayor but will succeed only 55% in ward or lower level.
This has actually happened here. In the same 16 Nagar Nigams BJP success rate was 87.5% for mayoral posts (14 out of 16), but at ward level they got only 46% success ( 592 out of 1300).
Not only the above explained mathematical phenomenon, there is one more phenomenon of voting. Ad the constituency size goes on decreasing, voters candidate relationship becomes closer. People’s voting preferences are guided by opp personal relationship, less guided by party considerations.
Please give vote percentage at these centres gained by various parties in 2012 2014 2017.
Ballot papers can be more easily manipulated by local warlords in the hinterland. Whereas the evms are less immune .
All opposition leaders should bear this in mind too. Hence naturally they shall prefer ballot papers. Was the Punjab assembly elections held on ballot papers?.
I think Yogiji’s governance and development record will have to be much better for a safe 2019.