AkhileshYadav leads in Karhal as SP trails in UP, according to the Karhal Seat Result 2022.

PAROMITA DAS.

AkhileshYadav, President of the Samajwadi Party and the party’s chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh, is ahead in his Karhal constituency shortly after voting for the assembly elections 2022 began on Thursday.

According to preliminary results, Yadav was leading by 10,000 votes in Karhal, where he is contesting his first assembly elections. SP Singh Baghel, a government minister and Agra MP, was nominated by the BJP to run against the SP president.

Karhal is a seat in the Mainpuri district, which is known as a stronghold for the Samajwadi Party and the Yadav family.

Meanwhile, Yadav’s main rival, CM Adityanath, is also running in his maiden assembly election after serving as the area’s MP for two decades, and is leading from his Gorakhpur constituency.

In the grand scheme of things, early vote-counting trends indicate that the BJP is retaining a comfortable victory in Uttar Pradesh.

According to early polls, the Samajwadi Party is ahead in 100 seats in Uttar Pradesh.

In Punjab, CM Charanjit Singh Channi is in second place in both Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur.

Counting is underway in 117 Punjab Assembly constituencies, with chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi lagging in Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur, the two assembly seats from which he campaigned in the assembly elections.

Channi has served in the legislature for three terms, representing Chamkaur Sahib.

Channi had already visited the ShriKatalgarhChamkaur Sahib Gurudwara in Ropar to pray and seek blessings. AamAadmi Party Chief Ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann also attended GursagarMastuana Sahib Gurdwara in Sangrur, hoping to form a government in Punjab, as indicated by many exit polls.

Mann’s Dhuri mansion has been decked with flowers, and Jalebis are being prepared at his Sangrur residence.

While Bhagwant Mann is running from Dhuri, Channi is running from Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur. If AAP wins Punjab, it will be the party’s first victory in the state and a significant improvement over its result in the 2017 elections, when it finished second to Congress. Congress had battled factionalism and anti-incumbency in the run-up to the election.

The party’s chief minister was replaced in September of last year, even as new Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu hinted at his own ambitions for the post. The Congress ultimately declared Charanjit Singh Channi, Punjab’s first Dalit Chief Minister, as their chief ministerial candidate just days before the February 20 election. For the assembly elections, the ShiromaniAkali Dal, which had broken up its alliance with the BJP over three farm regulations that were subsequently repealed, joined forces with the BahujanSamaj Party.

It is the first time that the BJP has contested over 65 seats in Punjab. It joined forces with former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and SS Dhindsa’s SAD (Sanyukt). Leaders of the BJP have spoken about putting up a good showing in the polls. On February 20, Punjab had a voter participation of 65.50 percent, compared to almost 77 percent in 2017. The majority in the 117-member Punjab Assembly is 59.

On Monday, most exit polls predicted a victory for the AamAadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, with the magnitude of the party’s triumph ranging between