Caste and religious polarization in the Uttar Pradesh elections as well as loss of contact at the grassroots level led to the defeat of Sugarcane Minister Suresh Rana.
Rana lost to Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Ashraf Ali Thana Bhawan By a margin of about 10,000 votes.
Sources said Rana’s downfall was due to the unification of Jat, Brahmin and Muslim voters.
“There is a significant number of Muslims in his constituency. Also the Jats decided to vote for Jayant Choudhary in his constituency. Brahmins were angry with him because of his Thakurism in the panchayat elections,” said a senior party leader.
Another obvious reason for the defeat was non-payment of dues. Sugarcane Farmer. Payment of cane arrears used to be one of the major election issues. There were some who claimed that dues were not cleared and that the sugarcane mills had exploited the farmers.
During his interview to News18.com, Rana had taken a dig at Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party, saying, “Woh Jinnah Wale Hai, Hum Ganna Wale Hain (They talk of Jinnah and we talk of sugarcane).
A senior party leader had said, “There is an anti-incumbency wave against him too because of his arrogance.” Talking to News18.com during the election campaign, Rana had rubbished all such claims. He had said that his ministry had cleared three times the dues in five years as compared to the SP-BSP government and Rs 1.5 lakh crore was paid for cane arrears, along with a marginal increase in rates.
designated at once 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots caseRana emerged as the party’s Hindu poster boy in the area.
However, Rana is not the only minister in Yogi’s cabinet who lost the election. The biggest loss has been to the OBC face of the party and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya from Pallavi Patel of Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) in Sirathu. Rural Development Minister Rajendra Pratap Singh, Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi, Cabinet Minister and BJP’s turncoat Swami Prasad Maurya, as well as other Ministers of State Upendra Tiwari, Ranvendra Pratap Singh, Girish Chandra Yadav, Anand Swaroop Shukla, Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay and Chhatrapal Gangwar. , also lost the election.
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