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SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has won this time from the Karhal seat of Mainpuri, but he wants to leave his assembly seat and retain his MP status. Akhilesh’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav had given all his strength to make Akhilesh win from Karhal, now Shivpal wants that from this left to be vacated by Akhilesh, he will field his son Aditya Singh from Karhal in this by-election. But it seems there is something else going on in Akhilesh’s mind. He hastily declared his uncle as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, so that he could not put any pressure on Akhilesh on this issue. Akhilesh has explained to his uncle that ‘he has some big plan regarding Aditya, he wants to field Aditya on the symbol of SP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.’ As far as Karhal seat is concerned, former three-time MLA from this seat Sobran Singh is also once again staking his claim on this seat. But something else is going on in Akhilesh’s mind. He wants to send Swami Prasad Maurya, a prominent leader of backward classes from Karhal, to Lucknow after winning the by-election. Swami Prasad Maurya, who has switched from BJP to SP, lost the election from Fazil Nagar. Akhilesh actually wants to strengthen his non-Yadav backward chemistry. Akhilesh got a big advantage of alliance with smaller parties in this election, due to this alliance, there has been a huge jump in the vote percentage of SP. In the 2017 Assembly elections, where the total vote share of the SP was only 21.08 percent, it has increased to 32.06 percent in the 2022 UP elections. That is, where Akhilesh’s vote share has increased by one and a half times, the seats in his assembly have increased by two and a half times. Akhilesh wants to maintain this boom in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as well.

In this changing weather, it seems the yellow Sun light has also changed to saffron. When the ballot box opened on the March 10, the hopes of many parties were also dashed. Even though the BJP stunned its opponents with its trot but many questions still remain unanswered. As a Congress leader says, “Narendra Modi’s victory is friable from within, because before the latest election results of five states, the BJP already had 399 seats out of total 690 seats. Now after the results, it is left with 356 seats i.e. 43 seats have been reduced.” But it should also be asked as to what happened to the morale of the Congress in Punjab where it handed over the victory to AAP. How did the call of victory in Uttarakhand turn into an outcry of defeat? Why did the public reject Priyanka’s ‘ladki hoon lad sakti hoon’ chant in UP? Therefore, today there is a need for introspection not by the BJP but by the Congress, whose many big leaders are still ready to break away. With the opposition flag-waving in four of these five states, the BJP plans to merge at least three parties into its Saffron fold by the end of this year. Mayawati is said to be ready for this, who, in this election transferred 70 to 80 percent of her core vote bank directly to the BJP. Her eyes are on an honorable farewell from politics. Her eyes are on the President post but if she does not get it, she may agree on the post of Vice President. This way she will get rid of all the cases and will be able to live a peaceful constitutional life. If this happens, she may be ready to merge her party BSP with BJP. More or less the same is the case with Nitish Kumar. His first attempt was to become the face of the Opposition unit at the Centre. He again contacted PK in this regard, explored the possibilities for himself, but if the plan does not materialise, then he too may easily surrender to the saffron. If he is made the President or Vice President, he may be ready to merge his party JDU with the BJP as JDU’s influence is now limited to Bihar only.

This old idea of ‘One Nation, One Election’ of PM Modi has started making waves again after the bumper victory of BJP in four states. Modi has been saying in the past that ‘Parliamentary elections and assembly elections of all states should be held simultaneously, this will save a lot of money for the country.’ PM Modi came up with this idea about four years ago. More than Rs 60,000 crores were spent on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections alone. It is said that the Election Commission of India also agrees with this opinion of the PM, but to do so, a consensus will need to be created among other political parties. Moreover, to do so amendment in Articles 83, 85, 172 and 174 of the Constitution will also be required. So will the elections to the 5 states that have just concluded be held again in 2024?

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