2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
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All 403 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 202 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 2002. Following a spell of 56 days of President’s Rule from 3 March to 2 May 2002, Mayawati became Chief Minister on 3 May 2002 for the third time after the BJP extended support to the BSP. BJP state president Kalraj Mishra resigned, and was replaced by Vinay Katiyar, who thought up slogans like "Haathi nahin Ganesh hai, Brahma Vishnu Mahesh hai" to defend the alliance. But the problems kept mounting, and Mayawati resigned in August 2003.
On 29 August 2003, Mulayam singh yadav was sworn in as CM with the support of BSP dissidents and ran the government until 2007. It is said that BJP leaders convinced Vajpayee that Mulayam would help in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections — Mulayam did not, however, help, and while the NDA lost power at the Centre, the SP got 39 Lok Sabha seats, its highest ever. Some BJP leaders continue to believe that Mulayam would have been marginalized had he not been helped in 2003.[1]
But this theory is very controvercial, because many people believe that samajwadi party formed government by support of Indian national congress, Communist party, other small parties like apna dal, rld and independents. And it was also politically right for these parties to support samajwadi party because it was the largest party with 143 mla. Bsp+Bjp alliance was few mla short of majourity.
Results
| Party Name | Seats |
|---|---|
| Samajwadi Party | 143 |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 98 |
| Indian National Congress | 25 |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 88 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 |
| Janata Dal (United) | 2 |
| Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha | 1 |
| Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress | 2 |
| Apna Dal | 3 |
| National Loktantrik Party | 1 |
| Rashtriya Lok Dal | 14 |
| Rashtriya Parivartan Dal | 1 |
| Rashtriya Kranti Party | 4 |
| Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | 1 |
| Independents | 16 |
| Total | 403 |
| Elections.in[2] EIC[3] | |
References
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh: A political history". indianexpress.com/. 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2002". elections.in. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ "Election Commission of India : Statistical Report on General Election, 2002 to The Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). eci.nic.in.