The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Saturday, 28 October 2017

WHERE ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES IN AMETHI GO? CERTAINLY NOT TO CONGRESS!

If we go by the results of the assembly constituencies that fall in the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, we can say the Congress citadel has never overwhelmingly supported Congress, especially after Rahul Gandhi took over the constituency from his mother in 2004 Lok Sabha polls that he won comfortably. 

Amethi parliamentary constituency (PC) has five assembly constituencies (ACs) – Tiloi, Salon (CS), Jagdishpur (SC), Gauriganj and Amethi. 

In fact, in his first two LS polls from the Amethi constituency, Rahul won comfortably and massively, increasing his vote share from 49.33 per cent in 2004 to 57.25 per cent in 2009 but we also need to keep this in mind that whenever it came to parliamentary polls in Amethi, Rahul almost always got walkover from the main opposition parties, SP and BSP. And BJP was nowhere in the scene as a potent political force with a consistent downward spiral in Uttar Pradesh. 

But that changed in 2017 assembly election. Stunning even the most seasoned political pundits, BJP won the assembly elections with a huge margin with 325 seats in the 403-member UP legislative assembly, so much so that no Muslim candidate could win even the minority concentration districts of western UP and their overall representation in UP assembly came down to a historically low of 25 MLAs, from a high of 68 Muslim MLAs in the UP assembly just five years ago, in 2012 assembly election. The 2017 outcome followed the massive BJP wave of 2014 LS election when the party had 71 out of the 80 LS seats in India’s most populous state. 

And it reflected even in Amethi, in 2014 and now in 2017. 

The battle for 2014 proved a tough one for Rahul Gandhi with senior BJP leader Smriti Irani as his main opponent. She gave a spirited fight and it reflected in Rahul’s winning margin coming drastically down to 12.36 per cent. And we can assume the next one in 2019 is going to be even tougher as Smriti has maintained a regular connect with Amethi, visiting the constituency like she has always been in the electoral mood.

And in assembly election earlier this year, BJP won four out of five assembly constituencies falling in the Amethi PC, the party that had failed to win even a single AC in Amethi in 2007 and 2012 assembly polls. Congress failed to open even its account with the other left seat going to SP. Moreover Congress didn’t remain even the main opposition in two ACs, ending up third in Tiloi AC and fourth in Amethi. 

2017 ASSEMBLY ELECTION 
TILOI (178)
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh - BJP – 96119 votes 
Mohd Saood - BSP – 52072 votes 
Vinod Kumar Mishra – Congress - 3rd - 35837 (18.55%) votes 

SALON (SC) (181)
Dal Bahadur - BJP – 78028 votes 
Suresh Chaudhary - Congress – 61973 votes 

JAGDISHPUR (SC) (184)
Suresh Kumar - BJP – 84219 votes 
Radhey Shyam - Congress – 67619 votes 

GAURIGANJ (185)
Rakesh Pratap Singh - SP – 77915 votes 
Mohd Naim - Congress – 51496 votes 

AMETHI (186)
Garima Singh - BJP – 64226 votes 
Gaytri Prasad - SP – 59161 votes 
Ameeta Sinh – Congress - 4th - 20291 (10.85%) votes 
BSP - 3rd - 16.13% votes

But even earlier, in 2007 and 2012 assembly election, Amethi PC was not clearly a Congress bastion, if seen from the perspective of AC voters. 

In 2012 election, SP, the party that had won that year’s assembly polls with 224 seats overall, ended up winning three out of five ACs falling in Amethi PC including the Amethi AC while Congress could win only two. The only solace that the party could have drawn was, it remained the principal opposition in other three ACs. 

2012 ASSEMBLY ELECTION 
TILOI (178)
Dr Mohammad Muslim - Congress – 61249 votes 
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh - SP – 58539 votes 

SALON (SC) (181)
Ashakishore - SP – 69020 votes 
Shiv Balak Pasi - Congress – 48443 votes 

JAGDISHPUR (SC) (184)
Radhey Shyam - Congress – 56309 votes 
Vijay Kumar - SP – 50912 votes 

GAURIGANJ (185)
Rakesh Pratap Singh - SP – 44287 votes 
Mohd Naim - Congress – 43784 votes

AMETHI (186)
Gayatri Prasad - SP – 58434 votes 
Ameeta Sinh - Congress – 49674 votes 

2007 was tad better for Congress when it could win three out of five seats in the parliamentary constituency. The 2008 delimitation had not affected the basic AC composition of the Amethi PC and it still consisted of the abovementioned five assembly segments – Tiloi, Salon, Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Amethi – of which Congress won three including Amethi and remained the principal opposition in other two – out of which one went to SP and the other to BSP. 

2007 ASSEMBLY ELECTION 
TILOI (92)
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh - SP – 44513 votes 
Dr. Mohammad Muslim – Congress – 44056 votes 

SALON (SC) (97)
Shiv Balak Pasi - Congress – 45078 votes
Asha Kishor – SP – 31969 votes

JAGDISHPUR (SC) (107)
Ram Sewak - Congress – 34563 votes 
Shri Ram - BSP – 21356 votes 

GAURIGANJ (106)
Chandra Prakash - BSP – 34386 votes
Mohd Naim – Congress – 28393 votes 

AMETHI (105)
Ameeta Sinh - Congress – 48108 votes 
Ashish - BSP – 35684 votes 

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