Congress candidate got less votes than NOTA in this seat of UP

Anil Singh, Banda: Congress’s performance in the 2022 UP assembly elections has been very poor. In Banda district, where all the four candidates of the party failed to save their deposits, 21 out of 39 candidates got less votes than NOTA. Among them is a candidate from Congress. In Banda assembly where Congress used to speak till 2017, the candidate did not get even 2000 votes.

8111 votes cast in NOTA
The Election Commission has given the option of NOTA if no candidate is preferred. A total of 8111 votes were cast in NOTA this time in all the four assembly constituencies. Of these, maximum 3420 votes were polled in Naraini, 2267 in Tindwari, 1598 in Banda, 826 in Baberu. A Congress candidate got less votes than the votes polled in NOTA.

I can fight slogan fail
Congress proved to be very poor in all the four seats of the district. More than this, the candidates of NOTA and sporadic parties got votes, while the Congress had given tickets to two women and two men candidates in all the four seats. In this election, Congress candidate Adishakti Dixit got only 2586 votes from Tindwari, while Pawan Devi got 1806 votes from Naraini, Laxmi Narayan Gupta from Banda Sadar seat 1894 and Congress’s Gajendra Singh Patel got 2112 votes from Baberu.

21 candidates including Congress are backward from NOTA
NOTA button was used extensively in elections. Alam is that in the four assembly constituencies of the district, 21 candidates including one Congress candidate were left behind by the votes cast in NOTA. The maximum NOTA button was used in the Naraini (Secure) seat. Many bigwigs were left behind by the votes cast in NOTA. These include 4 candidates each in Banda Sadar and Tindwari seats, 5 in Naraini and 8 in Baberu.

Devnath Yadav 1550 in Banda Sadar, Gulabchandra Kushwaha 990 and Ram Prasad Singh 915, Pawan Devi (Congress) 1806 in Naraini (Secured), Radheshyam (AAP) 662, Dayaram 2550, Ritesh Kumar 973 and Lovelesh (ASP) 1320, Dr. Ramchandra Saras 1589, Jagroop Bhaskar 585, Jaipal 504, Jialal Dhuria 804, Raj Bahadur Kushwaha 749, Samta Devi 817 and Simmi Burman 1944 and Madhuraj 1082, Arvind Kumar 1035, Moolchandra 913 and Uttam 821 in Tindwari.

Congress was once dominated in Banda Sadar
In the 80s, the Congress dominated all the four assembly seats of Banda. After this the vote bank of the Congress kept slipping down. Meanwhile, in 1996, the Congress and BSP alliance once again increased the vote bank of the Congress. In 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012, Vivek Singh won from Banda assembly seat consecutively and lost the election in 2017, even then he got around 36000 votes. This time his wife contested from SP, who got 66343 votes and Congress got only 1804 votes. From this it can be guessed that the Congress has been almost wiped out from here.