On the eve of
the first phase of voting in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra
Modi
said that the BJP will win the upcoming assembly elections in all five
states and that the party will form governments with an absolute majority.

Speaking to
news agency ANI, the Prime Minister said, “I have seen in all states that there
is the inclination towards the BJP and we will win the elections with a full
majority. The people of all these five states will give BJP the opportunity to
serve them.”

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He also said
that a BJP government works with stability, which leads to an atmosphere of
pro-incumbency instead of anti-incumbency. PM Modi highlighted that the BJP always works for the welfare of people, with matras such as ‘sabka saath, sabka vikaas’. 

“Wherever BJP got the opportunity to
work with stability, there the environment is of ‘pro-incumbency’ instead of
‘anti-incumbency’. The BJP always emerges victoriously with ‘pro-incumbency’ in
elections,” he said.

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PM Modi said that the BJP have defied the political trend of a ruling party not coming back to power in Uttar Pradesh, highlighting the saffron party’s wins in Lok Sabha as well as assembly elections in 2014, 2017 and 2019. 

“The people of Uttar Pradesh have already thrown away the old theory of ‘ek bar aao, ek bar jao’. The BJP has itself experienced that it was accepted in 2014, then the people saw our government’s work and we again got elected in 2017, and similarly in 2019 as well. Now in 2022, they will again see our work and again accept us.”

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The assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh is of particular importance as the state sends the most Members of Parliament – 80 – and the results of the forthcoming polls will be an indicator ahead of the 2024 General Elections. 

The seven-phased polling in the state will held on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7. Goa and Uttarakhand will go to polls on February 14, while Punjab will also vote in a single phase on February 20. 

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Manipur will go to polls in two phases, on February 27 and March 3. Votes will be counted on March 10.