As exit polls predicted a BJP sweep in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said, “We fought as hard as we could. We will wait and see the results.
The result of India Today-Axis My India exit polls predicted a BJP sweep in Uttar Pradesh. The polls said that the Yogi Adityanath-led party would win 288-326 seats in the 403-seat Assembly.
As per the exit poll results, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and its allies will win 71-101 seats, while the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is predicted to win 3-9 seats. The Congress could win 1-3 and others could bag 2-3 seats.
In the 2017 election, the BJP and its allies won in UP, with an overwhelming three-quarters majority of 325 seats and Yogi Adityanath was named the Chief Minister.
The BJP had won 312 seats while its allies Apna Dal(S) and SBSP bagged nine seats and four seats, respectively, taking the total tally to 325.
On the other hand, the SP had managed to get 47 seats, while the Congress got 7 seats. The BSP won 19 seats, finishing a dismal third.
As per the result of India Today-Axis My India exit polls for the 2022 UP Assembly election, the areas which saw the year-long farmers’ agitation over the three agri-reforms laws brought by the Narendra Modi government, too, gave the BJP lead over its principal rival, the SP.
In 2017, the BJP had won 53 of these seats. The SP and the BSP had won two seats each, while the RLD got one. The Congress had failed to secure a single victory in these 58 seats in 2017 when it had contested the polls in alliance with the SP.
