The results of the elections of 5 states will come on March 10, know some interesting facts and political records of the politics of these 5 states
The day of election results of Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur including Uttar Pradesh has come near. The results will come on March 10. Polling has been completed in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa. One phase each is still pending in Manipur and UP. All eyes are on UP where BJP is currently in power. Similarly, in Uttarakhand and Manipur, the challenge before the BJP is to save power. Let us know some interesting facts related to these assembly elections and the politics of the five states….
Interesting facts about UP, Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur politics
There are total 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. This is also higher than the seats in four other states- Goa, Punjab, Manipur and Uttarakhand combined. The first assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab were held in 1952. Punjab was reorganized in 1966. The first assembly elections were held in Goa in 1963, Manipur in 1967 and Uttarakhand in 2002.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati is the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh to complete a full five-year term. At the same time, Yogi Adityanath has become the third Chief Minister of UP after BSP supremo and Akhilesh Yadav to complete his term. Mayawat is also the first Dalit woman chief minister of any state in India.
No party has got majority in Punjab only twice. This happened for the first time in 1967 and for the second time in 1969. Since then, in all the elections held in Punjab, the people have given absolute majority to any one party or alliance.
Parkash Singh Badal (94 years) of Punjab Shiromani Akali Dal is the oldest candidate. This time also he is in the fray from his traditional Lambi assembly. Badal entered the field of politics for the first time in 1947 by winning the election of Sarpanch. He was 20 years old at that time. For the first time in 1957, he reached the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He has won five consecutive elections from Lambi seat since 1997.
There are 70 assembly seats in Uttarakhand. Out of this, a special myth is associated with the Gangotri seat. It is believed that the party whose candidate wins from this seat, the government is formed by that party. It is also interesting that this myth has been made before the formation of Uttarakhand. This time the CM face of the Aam Aadmi Party, retired Colonel Ajay Kothiyal is also in the fray from the same seat. Because of this also all eyes are on Gangotri seat. In the year 2002 and 2012, Congress won in Gangotri and the Congress government was formed in the state. Similarly, in 2007 and 2017, both the seats became BJP MLAs, then the government also became of BJP.
There is also a special thing about Uttarakhand that in the political journey of 20 years, 11 Chief Ministers have been made here. Congress leader former CM Narayan Dutt Tiwari was only able to complete his five-year term. At the same time, the party that was never in power in Uttarakhand could not make a comeback twice in a row.
Talking about Goa, 14 out of 40 assembly seats i.e. 35 percent seats have members from seven families. Parties like Bharatiya Janata Party, Trinamool Congress and Congress had given tickets to many members of the same family.
