On Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is also the Bharatiya Janata Party president, indicated that it would be an early contest to the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and encouraged voters to support the ruling party as he made a scathing attack on the Congress, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in what he called dynastic politics.
In a speech at the opening of three-day festivals marking the 77 th foundation day of Uttar Pradesh, Shah opined that one day the state had experienced a dramatic change since 2017 when the BJP was first elected to government under the leadership of the present Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Until the year 2017, Uttar Pradesh used to be referred to as a bimaru or sick state. Once the BJP took over the government, all was different. He said that today, Uttar Pradesh was a constituent of the India growth engine and a revenue-surplus state.
Shah had pointed fingers at the past regimes and attributed the change to the current leadership by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Centre and Yogi Adityanath in the state. He credited better law and order and integrated governance under what he termed as a dual engine government to have spurred development in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing the voters directly before the 2027 elections, which is set to take place in March-April, Shah urged voters to elect the BJP to a third full majority. He says, I have come here to request you to vote the BJP in coming 2027 Assembly elections.
The BJP had won 312 out of 403 seats in the 2022 Assembly election with a landslide victory. Nevertheless, in the 2024 elections to the Lok Sabha (the lower house in Uttar Pradesh), the party lost 33 seats to 62 it won in 2019. The SP won more seats of 37, and Congress increased its seats to six, indicating how the political environment can change before 2027.
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