Exit Poll 2024: How many seats will Uttar Pradesh, Bihar give to BJP & INDI Alliance?
The states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar together send 120 MPs to the Lok Sabha and remain
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As the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections concluded on Saturday (June 1) at 6 pm, the exit poll figures started pouring in.
The states of Uttar Pradesh (80) and Bihar (40) together send 120 MPs to the Lok Sabha and remain electorally crucial. It is famously said that the road to Delhi passes through UP.
Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting from UP’s Varanasi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also a candidate on Rae Barelli seat. The seat is his second seat after Wayanad in Kerala.
Uttar Pradesh
Of the 80 seats in UP, the BJP-led NDA is expected to win 68-71 and the INDIA bloc 9-12, according to News 18 exit poll.
Among the NDA, the BJP is expected to win 64-67 seats. In the INDIA bloc, the Congress is expected to win three to six seats.
Uttar Pradesh sends 80 members to the Lower House of Parliament and the polling has been spread over all seven election phases. The state is seeing a direct contest between the BJP-led NDA and INDIA bloc members Samajwadi Party and Congress.
Among the prominent Lok Sabha seats in this phase are Modi’s Varanasi, Gorakhpur, which has been represented by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath five times, and Chandauli, Maharajganj and Mirzapur from where Union ministers Mahendra Nath Pandey, Pankaj Chaudhary and Anupriya Patel are contesting.
From Ghazipur, mafia don-turned-politician late Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Afzal Ansari is in the fray and from Ballia, former prime minister Chandrashekhar’s son Neeraj Shekhar is contesting. Campaigning for the 13 seats ended on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were among the star campaigners for the NDA. The INDIA. bloc saw Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav canvassing for the candidates of the alliance, with roadshows held in Varanasi and Gorakhpur.
Polling for the final phase of Lok Sabha elections in 13 Uttar Pradesh constituencies that include Varanasi, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third consecutive term, began at 7 am today.
Gandhi contested the polls from Rae Bareli in the fifth phase on May 20, Akhilesh Yadav was fielded by the SP from Kannauj that went to polls in the fourth phase on May 13 and Dimple Yadav contested from Mainpuri where voting was held in the third phase on May 7.
During campaigning, the BJP alleged that the INDIA bloc would bring in Muslim reservation and put the ‘Babri lock’ on Ayodhya’s Ram temple if voted to power. The opposition alliance urged people not to vote for the BJP to ‘save’ the Constitution and democracy.
BJP’s key allies NISHAD Party and Om Prakash Rajbhar’s SBSP have candidates contesting in this phase. Ally Apna Dal (Sonelal)’s Anupriya Patel is also seeking a reelection.
