Of the 403 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, 254 winning candidates are those whose names start with English alphabets R, S, A, M and P. Of them, 184 are from the BJP and 70 from the Samajwadi Party. Of the 26 letters of the English alphabet, there is no MLA in the UP assembly whose names start with alphabets –Q, W and X .
The scrutiny of the list of winning candidates of UP assembly polls showed that there are 65 MLAs whose name starts with the English alphabet R. Of these, 38 MLAs are from BJP, 23 MLAs belong to Samajwadi Party, three MLAs belong to the SP ally Rashtriya Lok Dal, and one MLA, Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, belongs to Jansatta Party.
The list includes Ram Achal Rajbhar, Rajeev Singh ”Parichha”, Ramesh Chandra Mishra, Rani Pakshalika Singh, Rampal Verma, and Ram Naresh Agnihotri.
According to astrologer Dr Shesh Narayan Vajpayee, Ketu-Jupiter-Mercury Mahadasha, two Shadashtak Yoga were formed —Jupiter-Mercury and Jupiter-Ketu, which acted favorably for those candidates having names starting with RSAM and P letter.
Besides, Dasha during this electoral period was Ketu Mahadasha with Guru Antardasha also helped them. There are 62 such MLAs who have reached the assembly whose first letter is S. Of them, 48 are from the BJP and 14 from the SP.
Yogi government ministers Suresh Khanna, Sidharth Nath Singh, Sushil Kumar Shakya, Satyapal Singh Rathore, Suresh Pasi, Surya Pratap Shahi are few names whose names start with S. There are 62 MLAs whose names start with A. Of these, BJP has 49 MLAs. There are only 13 MLAs of SP whose name starts with A.
These include the names of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Azam Khan, Abbas Ansari. There are 37 MLAs whose names start with English letter M. Of them, 11 MLAs are from the SP and 26 MLAs from the BJP.
Out of the 11 names of SP included, 5 names are from the minority community, whose name starts with the first word Mohammad.The scrutiny of winning candidates list of UP assembly polls showed that there are 30 such MLAs who have won whose names start with P. Of them, 22 are from the BJP and eight are associated with the SP.
The name of the lone BSP MLA Umashankar Singh starts with the rest of the letter U. The names of SP MLAs Zahid, Ziauddin Rizvi and Ziaur Rehman start with the letter Z. After the high-voltage Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, parties, especially the ruling BJP and SP are heading for the political battle of the legislative council elections.
The biennial elections for the 36 out of 37 vacant seats for the Upper House (Vidhan Parishad) of Uttar Pradesh will be held on April 9, the counting for which would be declared on April 12. It would be interesting to see whether candidates having names starting with RSAM and P repeat this time or not.