Uttar Pradesh : Despite BJP wave, Deputy CM Keshav Maurya, 10 ministers of Yogi got defeated
Under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP has won a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh. This is the first time in the last 37 years that an incumbent government has repeated it. Despite the big wave of BJP, 11 ministers of the Yogi government failed to win the 2022 assembly elections.
- Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya is the first name among the losing ministers of the Yogi government. Whom Samajwadi Party’s Pallavi Patel defeated by 7,337 votes from Sirathu seat. Pallavi Patel is the vice-president of Apna Dal (Kamarawadi), an ally of the SP.
- Ganni minister Suresh Rana lost to RLD candidate Ashraf Ali Khan by more than 10,000 votes from Thanabhawan seat in Shamli district.
- Another minister Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar was defeated by Samajwadi Party candidate Ataur Rahman by 3,355 votes in Baheri seat of Bareilly district.
- Rural Development Minister Rajendra Pratap Singh alias Moti Singh lost in Pratapgarh’s Patti seat to Samajwadi Party’s Ram Singh by 22,051 votes.
- Another minister in the Yogi government, Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay, lost to Anil Kumar of Samajwadi Party by 20,876 votes in Chitrakoot.
- Minister Anand Swaroop Shukla has lost from Bairiya seat in Ballia district to Samajwadi Party’s Jaiprakash circle by 12,951 votes. Shukla had contested from Ballia seat last time, but this time BJP had fielded him from Bairia seat instead of sitting MLA Surendra Singh.
- UP Sports Minister Upendra Tiwari lost Ballia’s Phephna seat to Samajwadi Party candidate Sangram Singh by 19,354 votes. At the same time, Usha Maurya of Samajwadi Party defeated Minister Ranvendra Singh Dhunni by 25,181 votes in Hussainganj seat of Fatehpur.
- In Dibiyapur seat of Auraiya district, Pradeep Kumar Yadav of Samajwadi Party defeated Lakhan Singh Rajput by 473 votes. In Etawa seat of Siddharthnagar district, state Basic Education Minister Satish Chandra Dwivedi was defeated by SP candidate Mata Prasad Pandey by 1,662 votes.
- Another minister Sangeeta Balwant was defeated by Jai Kishan of SP by 1,692 votes in Ghazipur seat.
