DECODING BJP's big win in Uttar Pradesh | Bharat Ki Baat ( 11 March 2022)

In retrospect, the impact of farm law agitation in Uttar Pradesh elections seems to have been confined to a few districts in Meerut division. The biggest beneficiary has been Jayant Chaudhary with his Rashtriya Lok Dal finding a toe hold in west-UP polity after conceding the space to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last seven years. In districts south of Delhi with pockets of Jat population, it seems the division of Jat votes was in favour of the BJP as the ruling party has incurred minimal losses in Bulandshehar, Mathura, Aligarh, Hathras and Agra. On the contrary, maximum damage to the ruling alliance has been inflicted in the far east in the southern Poorvanchal region that went to polls in the last phase. And there is reason for why BJP found the going tough as the election travelled from west to east over the month.