Bjp ruling states in india 2022

Beginning last month, five Indian states held legislative elections, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won four of them. The jewel in its crown was Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest number of seats of any state legislature in India. The BJP achieved a clear-cut majority—255 of 403 seats—and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath won reelection. The monk-turned-politician will now see his profile rise, with media now perceiving him as a presumptive future national leader. Most notably, after more than three decades, an incumbent party will hold onto power in Uttar Pradesh. Beginning last month, five Indian states held legislative elections, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won four of them. The jewel in its crown was Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest number of seats of any state legislature in India. The BJP achieved a clear-cut majority—255 of 403 seats—and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath won reelection. The monk-turned-politician will now see his profile rise, with media now perceiving him as a presumptive future national leader. Most notably, after more than three decades, an incumbent party will hold onto power in Uttar Pradesh. There is an adage in Indian politics: To form a national government, a party must win Uttar Pradesh. And the state has long posed a significant challenge for politicians. It is not only the most populous state in India, but it is also quite socially diverse, which requires cobbling together disparate constituencies into a singl...

Year 2023 is crucial and will be historic for our country. We are celebrating ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, and at the same time envisioning India in 2047. Also, India is hosting a historic G20 Summit this year which shows that we are heading towards a leadership role in a multipolar world. Furthermore, we are heading to the general elections next year which is going to decide the fate of this country. Over the past 9 years, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been ruling the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not only the most popular leader in India but also across the globe. The forefather of the Hindu Nation theory was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He was the first person who thought about the Hindu Nation theory when India was a colony of Britishers. According to Savarkar, secular nationalism is a fraudulent foreign imposition perpetrated by elites at the time of Independence. According to Savarkar, India is at its core a Hindu nation and a Hindu, in turn, is anyone who regards sovereign Indian territory as both their fatherland (Pitribhumi) as well as holy land (Punyabhoomi). Recently, PM Modi inaugurated the new Parliament for a ‘New India’ by all Vedic means. PM Modi restored the cultural pride of India in the new Parliament building by restoring the Sengol in Lok Sabha, also known as the house of people. In today’s multipolar world, Sanatan identity holds importance and also because it has the potential to foster the kind of coherent national community needed for ...

NEW DELHI, March 10 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won India's most populous state with a big majority, according to the count on Thursday of a state assembly vote that could offer clues to the national mood before a 2024 general election. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won or was leading in 255 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, which it currently rules, according to the Election Commission of India. Final results were expected to be out in a few hours but were unlikely to change much. Party workers in the state staged impromptu rallies to celebrate and smeared each other in the BJP's saffron colours. Modi said that some political experts had said the results of polls in five states in 2017 decided the results of the general election in 2019, which the BJP won with a sweeping majority. "I believe this time also they will say that the results of 2022 have decided the results of 2024," he said. Uttar Pradesh is home to about a fifth of India's 1.35 billion people and sends the most legislators to parliament of any state. The victory in the northern state has come despite the state and federal government's much-criticised handling of COVID-19, lack of jobs and anger over farm reforms that Modi cancelled last year after protests. "The people of the state have rejected the opposition that was building a castle in the air," party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia. The BJP has long predicted it would retain the state because of policies such as...

Election officials count votes after Uttar Pradesh state elections in Lucknow, India on Thursday. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party had a commanding lead in India's most populous state as votes were counted Thursday, despite his government's criticized handling of COVID-19, soaring unemployment and farmer protests. Trends in the poll data shared by India's Election Commission showed the Bharatiya Janata Party comfortably leading in Uttar Pradesh state in polls that were seen as a crucial test for Modi's popularity before national elections in 2024. Modi's BJP was also ahead in three more states, while India's main opposition party Congress was facing a rout in Punjab, data showed. The final tally for five states — Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa — where voters went to the polls over a month to cast their ballots was expected by Thursday evening at the earliest. Thursday's results, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, are seen as a referendum on Modi's popularity and a resounding endorsement of his party's Hindu-first politics. They will also dent the hopes of India's opposition parties which are banking to form a united front to challenge Modi in the next general elections. The key northern state of Uttar Pradesh is governed by Yogi Adityanath, a highly divisive Hindu monk-turned-politician whose rise has been marked by anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence. He is expected to return as the chief minister of t...

In the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP won a majority of the 403 seats, according to the Election Commission of India. The northern state is the country’s most populous and is considered a political bellwether. It sends more legislators to Parliament than any other state and was key to Modi’s victories in previous national elections. In the agrarian state of Punjab in northern India, a regional party known as the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, or AAP, won handsomely over the incumbent Indian National Congress. With its victory in Punjab, the AAP, which controls the Delhi capital region, became the first regional party in decades to capture power in more than one state. The bitterly fought state elections, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, have been held in staggered phases over more than a month. They were billed as a battle for India’s future, in which voter preferences would either burnish the BJP’s Hindu nationalist agenda or challenge what critics call the country’s tilt toward But the BJP’s win in Uttar Pradesh, experts say, again reinforces the dominance of the 71-year-old Modi in the country of more than 1.3 billion people for the foreseeable future. Modi in recent years has grown a long white beard, a move seen as an attempt to cast himself as a sage-like figure towering over the country’s contemporary political life. The latest victory is likely to help the BJP forge ahead with its controversial agenda, including implementing a citizenship law that exclud...

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