BJP wants to maintain its legacy in the Deoria seat in this election

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is working hard in this year's Assembly elections in Deoria district, eastern Uttar Pradesh, to repeat the previous election results, but the opposition's fortifications, including the Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress, and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), have put obstacles in its way. The race in seven seats in Deoria district has gotten more interesting this time, with the sp, BSP, and congress all vying for Dalit Muslim votes. Surya Pratap Shahi and Jai Prakash Nishad, ministers in the Yogi administration of the district, will be put to the test in the sixth round of voting in these seats on March 3.

At the same time, candidates for the BJP in the Barhaj, Deoria Sadar, Rampur Karkhana, and Salempur seats face a fight. The capacity of Shalabh Mani Tripathi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's communication adviser, to become a people's representative in the Deoria Sadar Assembly will be put to the test. Shalabh Mani, a journalist-turned-politician, has been nominated to replace existing BJP MLA Satya Prakash Mani. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP won six of the seven assembly seats in the Deoria parliamentary constituency, while the Samajwadi Party won the Bhatparrani seat. The Congress and the BSP were crushed by the Modi tsunami, and their accounts could not even be opened.

According to electoral pundits, the BJP will find it difficult to duplicate the 2017 results. Three of the district's seven seats are expected to be held in a triangular struggle, and four in a straight fight. While the SP has selected former minister Brahma Shankar Tripathi from here to run against Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi from Pathardewa, the BSP has made the race more intriguing by selecting Parvez Alam, the son of Shakir Ali, who served in the SP administration as a cabinet minister.

Brahma Shankar is pleading for the Brahmins' honour to be restored, and the royals are requesting the people's blessings based on his government's development efforts. While Parvez Alam is clinging to power on the backs of Muslim voters and the BSP's traditional votes. Former Congress MLA Akhilesh Pratap Singh and BSP minister and current SP candidate Ram Bhual Nishad will go up against Jai Prakash Nishad, a minister in the Yogi administration in the Rudrapur assembly seat. With two Nishads entering the electoral arena in the Nishad-dominated area, the Congress sees a vote split that it is attempting to exploit.

The BJP has nominated young leader Deepak Mishra in the Barhaj assembly after cutting the ticket of current MLA Suresh Tiwari. Deepak Mishra is the son of a late BJP senior and former MLA Durga Prasad Mishra. Deepak Mishra, who has established himself as a firebrand leader in the region, is appealing to the people for support by referencing his father's heritage. In Barhaj, the number of Brahmin voters is regarded to be enough. In contrast to him, the SP has changed its candidate and now has Murli Manohar Jaiswal, the son of late Ram Prasad Jaiswal, who was previously a major BSP leader and MLA from here.