Congress Vote Share in UP Polls | Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022

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Lucknow,
Mar
10:
The
Congress,
which
has
dominated
Uttar
Pradesh
for
the
longest
interval
of
time
amongst
political
events
however
has
been
out
of
energy
for
three
many years,
plunged
into
additional
wilderness
in
the
state,
profitable
simply
two
seats.

Whereas
its
seats
tally
got here
down
to
two
from
seven
in
2017,
its
vote
share
declined
to
2.35
per
cent
from
6.25
per
cent.
The
two
seats
it
gained
are
Rampur
Khas
and
Pharenda.
In
Rampur
Khas,
Congress
candidate
Aradhana
Mishra
defeated
her
closest
rival
BJP’s
Nagesh
Pratap
Singh
by
14,741
votes,
whereas
in
Pharenda
Virendra
Chaudhary
defeated
the
BJP’s
Bajrang
Bahadur
Singh
by
1,087
votes.

The
occasion’s
poor
present
in
Amethi
and
Rae
Bareli,
which
had been
thought-about
its
strongholds
not
lengthy
in the past,
continued
the place
it
failed
to
get
a
single
seat,
its
candidates
getting
a
third
or
fourth
spot
at
most
locations.
State
Congress
president
and
Tamkuhi
Raj
seat
MLA
Ajay
Kumar
Lallu
additionally
failed
to
make
a
mark.
In
Rampur
Khas
additionally
its
profitable
margin
has
come
down.
The
Congress
marketing campaign
was
led
by
occasion
nationwide
common
secretary
Priyanka
Gandhi
Vadra
who
crisscrossed
the
state
holding
conferences
and
roadshows
in
an
try
to
resurrect
the
occasion
which
had
been
on
the
sidelines
since
the
previous
three
many years.

Priyank’s
marketing campaign
centred
round
girls
with
the
slogan
of
‘ ladki
hun
lad
sakti
hun’
and
had
come
up
with
the
new
experiment
of
issuing
a
separate
manifesto
for
girls
who
had been
additionally
given
40%
tickets.
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