UP’s Samajwadi Strongholds, Uttarakhand, Goa To Vote These days: 10 Issues

In Uttar Pradesh, particular center of attention can be on 8 delicate constituencies throughout Bijnor, Sambhal and Saharanpur districts. The spaces — thought to be strongholds of the Samajwadi Party — have a sizeable Muslim inhabitants.

Goa and Uttarakhand will see a single-phase vote casting. 40 seats of Goa and 70 seats of hill state are going to polls.

Of the 55 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP had gained 38 in 2017, the Samajwadi Party gained 15 and the Congress gained 2.

The distinguished faces contesting on this part come with senior Samajwadi Party chief Azam Khan, Dharam Singh Saini, the BJP minister who switched to Samajwadi Party, and the state’s Finance Minister Suresh Khanna.

Azam Khan has been fielded from his stronghold Rampur and is contesting the polls from in the back of the bars. His son Abdullah Azam is contesting from Suar seat in opposition to Haider Ali Khan. Haider Ali Khan, a member of the erstwhile royal circle of relatives of Rampur, is the grandson of former MP Noor Bano, who is making an attempt his success at the price tag of Apna Dal (Sonelal), a BJP best friend. He’s the one Muslim candidate introduced by way of the BJP-led alliance in UP up to now.

In Uttarakhand, the important thing applicants come with Leader Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and his cupboard colleagues Satpal Maharaj, Subodh Uniyal, Arvind Pandey and Dhan Singh Rawat. Distinguished faces from the Congress come with former leader minister Harish Rawat and state Congress leader Ganesh Godiyal. Arvind Kejriwal’s Aaam Aadmi Party could also be contesting in Uttarakhand.

Regardless that a small seashore state with most effective 40 seats, the competition in Goa has drawn the utmost eyeballs after UP, with the wonder result in 2017, when the Congress gained the utmost selection of seats, however the BJP shaped the federal government. This time, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party and Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress also are in fray, with hopes to amplify their footprint past Delhi and Bengal.

The massive battle shall be in Panaji, the place Utpal Parrikar, a BJP insurrection and the son of past due Manohar Parrikar, contests as an Impartial in opposition to Atanasio Monserrate of the BJP. The Congress has fielded Elvis Gomes, a former bureaucrat and AAP’s leader ministerial candidate in 2017. AAP has fielded Valmiki Naik for the 3rd time.

The Trinamool Congress has been aggressively recruiting in Goa — its growth coming most commonly at the price of the Congress. The election, alternatively, comes amid a rising rift with Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and the outdated guard. Stuck within the center is election strategist Prashant Kishor’s IPAC, which is formulating the marketing campaign in Goa.

The Aam Aadmi Party, which drew a clean within the 2017 elections in Goa, claims they’re neatly ready this time. Given the historical past of fast defections within the state, all 40 AAP applicants have signed a loyalty affidavit, which may also be legally enforceable by way of any voter.