2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
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2022 Legislative Assembly elections are being held in Uttar Pradesh from 10 February to 7 March 2022 in seven phases to elect all 403 members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 10 March 2022.
Background
The tenure of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 14 May 2022.[1] The previous assembly elections were held February–March 2017. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Yogi Adityanath becoming Chief Minister.[2]
Panchayat Elections
In the 2021 Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Elections, SP won 760 wards, followed by BJP with 719 wards. Bahujan Samaj Party won 381 and Indian National Congress won 76 wards. Independents and smaller parties won in 1,114 wards.[3] AAP won 64 and AIMIM won 22 wards in the panchayat elections.[4]
Political developments
In January 2022, ten BJP state legislators including three ministers, left the party and joined Samajwadi Party.[5] On 19 January, Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Bisht Yadav joined BJP.[6] She was followed by Mulayam Singh's brother-in-law Pramod Gupta who joined BJP on 20 January.[7] On 25 January, former Union Minister and Congress leader Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh joined BJP.[8]
Schedule
The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 8 January 2022.[9]
Poll event | Phase | ||||||
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I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | |
Notification date | 14 January 2022 | 21 January 2022 | 25 January 2022 | 27 January 2022 | 1 February 2022 | 4 February 2022 | 10 February 2022 |
Last date for filing nomination | 21 January 2022 | 28 January 2022 | 1 February 2022 | 3 February 2022 | 8 February 2022 | 11 February 2022 | 17 February 2022 |
Scrutiny of nomination | 24 January 2022 | 29 January 2022 | 2 February 2022 | 4 February 2022 | 9 February 2022 | 14 February 2022 | 18 February 2022 |
Last date for withdrawal of nomination | 27 January 2022 | 31 January 2022 | 4 February 2022 | 7 February 2022 | 11 February 2022 | 16 February 2022 | 22 February 2022 |
Date of poll | 10 February 2022 | 14 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | 23 February 2022 | 27 February 2022 | 3 March 2022 | 7 March 2022 |
Date of counting of votes | 10 March 2022 |
Phase | ||||||
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I
(58 ACs, 11 Districts) |
II
(55 ACs, 9 Districts) |
III
(59 ACs, 16 Districts) |
IV
(59 ACs, 9 Districts) |
V
(61 ACs, 11 Districts) |
VI
(57 ACs, 10 Districts) |
VII
(54 ACs, 9 Districts) |
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Parties and alliances
National Democratic Alliance
During the month of September, the NDA confirmed an alliance between BJP, AD(S) and the NISHAD Party.[10][11] During the month of August, the NDA held talks with parties like JD(U), Ham(S)[12] and others, however the seat sharing talks fell apart later. In October, there were major restructuring efforts by the alliance with new faces and revamp of parties in an effort to battle anti-incumbency. In the first 2 weeks of December, the alliance launched it campaign for the election.[13] On the 13th of Jan the national democratic alliance sealed their seat sharing pact with NISHAD Party getting 13-17 and Apna Dal getting 10-14 and BJP competing in the remaining seats.
No. | Party[14] | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | Bharatiya Janata Party | Yogi Adityanath | 370 | 328 | 42 | |||
2. | Apna Dal (Sonelal) | File:Election Symbol Cup & Saucer.png | Anupriya Patel | File:Health minister anupriya patel.jpg | 17 | 14 | 3 | |
3. | NISHAD Party | File:NISHAD Party Logo.jpg | Sanjay Nishad | 16 | 15 | 1 | ||
Total | 403 | 357 | 46 |
Samajwadi Party+
RLD was the first to join the alliance. Later Akhilesh Yadav announced that they were only willing to partner up with regional parties and not national parties. The NCP and RJD too joined the alliance later.[15] Various other smaller parties too joined while SBSP broke away from its alliance to join SP alliance.[16] During the first seat sharing talks, SP agreed to give RLD 36 seats. Initially, RLD demanded 60 seats while SP were willing to give up to 30, later both the parties finalised at 33 with RLD mostly competing in West UP. RLD gave 8 symbol of SP candidates.[17] Aam Aadmi Party and Samajwadi Party began talks for alliance,[18][19] however they couldn't agree on seat sharing.[20] Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) joined the alliance later. On the 13 Jan 2022, the alliance announced its initial candidates for the first few phases of the election.
No. | Party[22][23] | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | Samajwadi Party | File:Samajwadi Party Flag.jpg | Akhilesh Yadav | 346 | TBD | TBD | ||
2. | Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) | Shivpal Singh Yadav | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
3. | Mahan Dal | Keshav Dev Maurya | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
4. | Janvadi Party (Socialist) | Sanjay Chauhan | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
5. | Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) | Krishna Patel | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
6. | Rashtriya Lok Dal | Jayant Chaudhary | File:Chaudhary Jayant Singh.jpg | 33 | 31 | 2 | ||
7. | Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party | File:Election Symbol Walking Stick.png | Om Prakash Rajbhar | 16 | 15 | 1 | ||
8. | Nationalist Congress Party | KK Sharma | 1[24] | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 402 | TBD | TBD |
Bahujan Samaj Party
Unlike previous years, the Bahujan Samaj Party has announced that it will compete the election all by itself.[25] BSP went into alliance with ten small political parties namely India Janshakti Party, Pacchasi Parivartan Samaj Party, Vishwa Shanti Party, Sanyukt Janadesh Party, Adarsh Sangram Party, Akhand Vikas Bharat Party, Sarvajan Awaz Party, Jagruk Janata Party and Sarvajan Sewa Party for their extended support to BSP.[26][27]
No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | Bahujan Samaj Party | Mayawati | 403[25] | TBD | TBD |
United Progressive Alliance
Similar to BSP, the only party competing from United Progressive Alliance has been the INC. On 19 October 2021, Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi announced 40% of tickets to women in upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.[28]
No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | Indian National Congress | Priyanka Gandhi | 403[29] | 242 | 161 |
Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Jan Adhikar Party, Bharat Mukti Morcha, Janata Kranti Party and Bharatiya Vanchit Samaj Party have formed a front to contest all 403 seats.[30]
No. | Party[30] | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | Shaukat Ali | File:Shaukat Ali profile.jpg | 100[31] | TBD | TBD | ||
2. | Jan Adhikar Party | Babu Singh Kushwaha | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
3. | Bharat Mukti Morcha | Waman Meshram | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
4. | Janata Kranti Party | Anil Singh Chauhan | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
5. | Bharatiya Vanchit Samaj Party | Ram Prasad Kashyap | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
6. | Peace Party of India | Mohamed Ayub | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
7. | Rashtriya Ulama Council | Aamir Rashadi Madni | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Left Front
No. | Party[32] | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | Communist Party of India | Girish Sharma | 38[citation needed] | TBD | TBD | |||
2. | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 4[33] | 4 | 0 | ||||
3. | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) | Sudhakar Yadav | 13[citation needed] | TBD | TBD | |||
4. | All India Forward Bloc | Jagdish Singh Thakral | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Others
During the month leading up to the elections major political parties which aren't part of any alliance announced their intentions to compete in the election.
- AAP announced that it would compete all 403 seats. AAP started an alliance discussion with SP but the talks for alliance did not succeed.
- Shiv Sena announced they would compete all 403 seat in the election which was later reduced to 50-100 seats.
- AIMIM originally was part of alliance and was given a seat share of 100 seats, however when SBSP broke the alliance to join hands with SP, AIMIM confirmed they would fight the election alone in 100 seats.
Later parties like VIP, LJP(Ram Vilas faction), RRP, ABHM and ASP also confirmed their participation in the election.[citation needed]
No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Photo | Seats contested | Male candidates | Female candidates |
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1. | Aam Aadmi Party | Sanjay Singh | 403[34] | TBD | TBD | |||
2. | Janata Dal (United) | 51[35] | TBD | TBD | ||||
3. | Shiv Sena[36] | Thakur Singh | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
4. | Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | 100[37] | TBD | TBD | |||
5. | Vikassheel Insaan Party[38] | File:Vikassheel Insaan Party.jpg | File:Chunav Chinh.png | Mukesh Sahani | File:Mukesh Sahani.png | TBD | TBD | TBD |
6. | Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)[39] | Chirag Paswan | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||
7. | Azad Samaj Party[40] | Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan | 403 | TBD | TBD |
Candidates
Manifestos
AAP
On 27 January 2022 AAP released its party manifesto titled "Kejriwal Guarantee Card". The manifesto was released by AAP's Uttar Pradesh In-charge Sanjay Singh during a press conference. Major promises in the manifesto were:[41][42]
- Transportation
- Free bus service for women
- Employment
- 10 lakh government jobs
- Recruitment of 97,000 teachers
- Guaranteed 80 percent reservation for local youths in state government jobs
- Reinstatement of the old pension scheme
- Resolve the issues of over 45,000 constables of Prantiya Raksha Dal (PRD), a voluntary force
- Electricity
- 300 units of free electricity
- Round-the-clock power supply
- Agriculture
- Law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for farmers' products
- Timely payment for sugarcane farmers
- Compensation at a rate of ₹50,000 (US$600) per hectare for loss of produce due drought or floods
- Withdrawal of fake police cases filed against farmers[43]
- Lawyers
- Chambers for lawyers
- Life insurance of up to ₹10 lakh (US$12,000)
- Soldiers
- Compensation of ₹1 crore (US$120,000) and a job to a member of family of a soldier dead while in duty
- Education
- Curriculum on the Constitution of India in primary schools
- Journalists
- ₹10 lakh (US$12,000) insurance
BJP
On 8 February, BJP released its manifesto titled "Lok Sankalp Patra", ahead of the 1st phase of the elections.[44] Some of the promises in it being:
- Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN) scheme for landless farmers
- Scooty for girl students and working women
- Free coaching to female students preparing for UPSC and PSC
- Laptops and other gadgets needed for online education for students
- Give at least 1 job to each household
- 3 free LPG cylinders to consumers each year under Ujjwala Yojna
BSP
BSP has announced that it will not release election manifesto.[45]
INC
INC released its manifesto in three tranches. The first tranche "Shakti Vidhan" was released on 19 December 2021 which centered on women welfare.[46] The second tranche "Bharti Vidhan" was released on 21 January 2022 which centered on youth welfare.[47][48] The final tranche "Unnati Vidhan" was released on 9 February 2022 which centered on overall development and general issues.[49][50]
Some key promises made in the manifesto are:
- The fees for all examination forms will be waived and travel by bus and trains would be made free
- 20 lakhs government jobs, that includes 8 lakhs only for women
- Fulfilment of all vacant seats in state healthcare hospitals
- Encouragement to industries, tourism, small and medium scale industries
- To boost startups in the state, a ‘Seed Startup Fund’ worth ₹5,000 crore (US$600 million) would be set up, prioritising the entrepreneurs below 30 years of age
- All the vacant posts for Sanskrit, Urdu teachers Anganwadi, Asha and so on will also be filled
- In the basic education sector, the shortage of one lakh head teachers will be met
SP+
Samajwadi Party released its manifesto on 8 February 2022.[51]
The National President of Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav released his party's 88-page manifesto for the elections. Under the motto "Satya Vachan, Atoot Vaada" (transl. Truth and Unbroken promises), the manifesto is laden with promises to farmers, women and the youth. Some key points from the party's manifesto are:
- Minimum support price (MSP) for all crops
- All farmers to be debt-free by 2025
- Free power for irrigation, interest-free loan and insurance as well as pension benefits to farmers
- ₹25 lakh (US$30,000) compensation to kin of farmers who died during farm protests
- Efforts to provide 22 lakh jobs in IT sector
- Urban employment guarantee act along lines of MGNREGS to boost jobs
- 33 per cent reservation for women of all communities (SCs/STs/General) in government jobs including police force
- Microfinance bank to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME)
- 300 units of free power to domestic consumers
- Free Wi-Fi zones in all villages and cities
- Further modernisation and upgradation of police and health infrastructure
- Dial 1890 Mazdoor Power Line- will be launched for migrant labourers
- Zero tolerance for organised crimes and hate crimes against women, minorities and Dalits[52]
Campaigns
Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella body of farmers, campaigned against the ruling BJP by organising public meetings and rallies asking farmers to not vote for BJP.[53] SKM had organised the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest against the controversial three farm acts which were passed by the BJP-led Union Government in the BJP controlled Parliament of India in September 2020. These laws were eventually withdrawn by the Union government.[53]
On 31 January 2022, the farmer leaders observed "Vishwasghat Diwas" (treachery day) across India after the Union government failed to fulfil promises that were made to the farmers during the withdrawal of agitation against three farm laws. SKM leaders have warned that the farm laws may be re-introduced if BJP wins the elections.[54]
According to the SKM leaders the promises that BJP made to the farmers in the 2022 manifesto were also made in the 2017 election manifesto, but they were not implemented. Neither the income of the farmer was doubled nor they got Minimum support Price (MSP) for their produce.[55]
SKM leaders launched "Mission UP and Uttarakhand" and appealed to the voters to not vote for BJP calling them anti-farmer. The appeal did not make any recommendation to vote for any specific political party. SKM's appeal was supported by 57 farmer organisations. Since the campaign rallies were banned due to COVID-19 pandemic in India, leaflets with the appeal were handed to the villagers.[56]
Policy positions
Farm Laws
BJP's Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in December 2021, had said that BJP brought the 3 agriculture amendment laws (repealed in 2021). "But the government is not disappointed. We moved a step back and we will move forward again because farmers are India’s backbone."[57]
The INC and AAP are against the farm laws and had supported the farmers' unions during their year-long protest against the farm laws.[58][59]
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has stated that after forming the government in Uttar Pradesh, SP will not allow the implementation of any anti-farmer laws in Uttar Pradesh.[60] He warned the farmers against BJP, and said that BJP had withdrawn the controversial farm laws to get votes from the farmers. SP's alliance partner Rashtriya Lok Dal is also against the implementation of farm laws.[60]
Election Issues
Citing a survey from all constituencies of UP, DNA news reported that Unemployment was the biggest issue for 73% of the voters. Inflation and price rise was second with 65% voter support. Development was 54% and stray animal was an issue for 39% voters.[61]
Stray Cow
The stray cow attacks on humans and crops in both the urban and rural areas is an issue for the residents. In 2017, after coming to power, Yogi Adityanath government had promised to build cattle shelters to better manage the stray cattle.[62] Since BJP came to power in 2017, cow slaughter has been made illegal in 18 states in India including UP, this was done in accordance with the right wing Hindu agenda.[63] Since then the trading of male cattle has reduced due to the fear of arrest, persecution, lynching by cow vigilantes. The farmers unable to sell them, abandon them to wander on the roads and feed on standing crops.[64][65][66] BJP state government claims to have provided money to the village pradhans to set up cow shelters to keep the stray cattle. Deccan Herald reported that it could not find cattle shelters in the villages of Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Hardoi and Unnao districts. Places that had cow shelters, were already full with no capactity to keep more cattle.[67]
BJP leaders refused to accept that the stray cattle was an issue, even though the farmers consider it an issue.[67] Speaking at a rally in Kanpur in February, PM Narendra Modi acknowledged the problem in his rally and said the Yogi government is trying to solve the problem by setting up cattle shelters.[65]
The Samajwadi Party promised compensation of 5 Lakh ₹ for farmers who were killed by bulls.[62] SP promised to fix the root cause of the problem, removing the fear in trading of livestock without any trouble or harassment.[65]
On 22 February, the local farmers released hundreds of cattle at the venue of the election rally in Barabanki located 40 km from the state capital Lucknow. The act was to highlight the menace of the stray cattle in the area. In a viral video of the incident, hundreds of unattended cattle were seen roaming in the open rally ground.[68][69][70]
Roads
Lack of roads was a major poll issue for people in Amethi.[71]
Voter turnout
Phase | Date | Seats | Districts | District Turnout (%) |
Phase Turnout (%) | |
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I | 10 February 2022 | 58 | Shamli | 69.42 | 62.54 | |
Muzaffarnagar | 66.75 | |||||
Baghpat | 65.42 | |||||
Meerut | 64.96 | |||||
Ghaziabad | 55.10 | |||||
Hapur | 67.68 | |||||
Gautam Budh Nagar |
57.07 | |||||
Bulandshahr | 65.17 | |||||
Aligarh | 61.37 | |||||
Mathura | 63.56 | |||||
Agra | 60.94 | |||||
II | 14 February 2022 | 55 | Saharanpur | 71.55 | 65.11 | |
Bijnor | 66.68 | |||||
Sambhal | 62.94 | |||||
Rampur | 65.21 | |||||
Bareilly | 62.90 | |||||
Badaun | 59.49 | |||||
Shahjahanpur | 59.56 | |||||
Amroha | 72.28 | |||||
Moradabad | 67.38 | |||||
III | 20 February 2022 | 59 | Hathras | 63.22 | 62.49 | |
Firozabad | 64.40 | |||||
Kasganj | 63.04 | |||||
Etah | 65.70 | |||||
Mainpuri | 63.96 | |||||
Farrukhabad | 60.08 | |||||
Kannauj | 62.09 | |||||
Etawah | 61.79 | |||||
Auraiya | 61.30 | |||||
Kanpur Dehat | 62.49 | |||||
Kanpur Nagar | 57.50 | |||||
Jalaun | 59.93 | |||||
Jhansi | 65.61 | |||||
Lalitpur | 71.36 | |||||
Hamirpur | 64.02 | |||||
Mahoba | 64.59 | |||||
IV | 23 February 2022 | 59 | Pilibhit | |||
Lakhimpur Kheri | ||||||
Sitapur | ||||||
Hardoi | ||||||
Unnao | ||||||
Lucknow | ||||||
Rae Bareli | ||||||
Banda | ||||||
Fatehpur | ||||||
V | 27 February 2022 | 61 | Amethi | |||
Sultanpur | ||||||
Chitrakoot | ||||||
Pratapgarh | ||||||
Kaushambi | ||||||
Prayagraj | ||||||
Barabanki | ||||||
Ayodhya | ||||||
Bahraich | ||||||
Shrawasti | ||||||
Gonda | ||||||
VI | 3 March 2022 | 57 | Ambedkar Nagar | |||
Balrampur | ||||||
Siddharthanagar | ||||||
Basti | ||||||
Sant Kabir Nagar | ||||||
Maharajganj | ||||||
Gorakhpur | ||||||
Kushinagar | ||||||
Deoria | ||||||
Ballia | ||||||
VII | 7 March 2022 | 54 | Azamgarh | |||
Mau | ||||||
Jaunpur | ||||||
Ghazipur | ||||||
Chandauli | ||||||
Varanasi | ||||||
Bhadohi | ||||||
Mirzapur | ||||||
Sonbhadra |
Exit polls
The Election Commission banned the media from publishing exit polls between 10 February and 7 March with an imprisonment of two years for the violation of the directive.[72]
Result
The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 10 March 2022.
See also
References
Notes
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