Counting of votes for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 has started in Deoria and early trends are showing. In the district, this election has become not only for party victory and defeat and formation of government, but also for saving heritage. He was a minister in the state government from the assembly constituency Bhatparani. Dr. Ashutosh Upadhyay, son of Kameshwar Upadhyay, is trying for the third time on a Samajwadi Party ticket to cherish the legacy he inherited from his father.
The former minister from Barhaj assembly constituency and the first BJP MLA elected in the whole of India. Deepak Mishra Shaka, the eldest son of Durga Prasad Mishra, is trying hard for the first time in the assembly elections. In Deoria Sadar Assembly, Samajwadi Party has made Ajay Pratap Singh Pintu its candidate. Pintu is the son of Kurmi leader Janmejay Singh, a two-time MLA from Deoria Sadar seat.
He was a cabinet minister in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s government. Shakir Ali’s son Parvez Alam is a district panchayat member. In the election of District Panchayat President, not only did he vote against the BJP candidate, but he also made a good siege on behalf of the Samajwadi Party, but when the Samajwadi Party made Brahmashankar Tripathi, a big face of the Brahmin community, the angry Parvez Alam considered the elephant ride as a favorable one. Got BSP ticket.
The BJP has made the state’s Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi its candidate from the Pathardeva assembly constituency. Shri Shahi’s uncle Ravindra Kishore Shahi was the state president of Jana Sangh and was also the energy and sports minister of the state in the Janata Party government. It will be interesting to see whether the Soorma of political families will be able to save their stronghold and carry forward the family legacy?
Dr. Bhavna Sinha, Assistant Professor of Political Science at BRD PG College, says about the shrinking of district politics in political families, that as a doctor wants his child to be a doctor and an engineer as an engineer, in the same way politicians make their family members into politics. Let us move forward. Political service has become a business, it can be easily guessed by looking at the annual economic prosperity in the election affidavits of politicians.