Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 30 : Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak exuded confidence that the Bharatiya Janata party will win all 80 seats from the state in the Lok Sabha elections.
He also said that the BJP will register huge victories in the Amethi, Rae Bareli and Mainpuri constituencies.
Notably, while Amethi and Rae Bareli are Gandhi family strongholds, Mainpuri is a Samajwadi Party bastion, which Dimple Yadav is contesting this time.
After the polling for the first two phases of general elections concluded, the Opposition parties have claimed, citing lower turnout as compared to 2019, that they are ahead in the race and BJP is on thin ice.
Refuting the claims, the Deputy CM said that BJP will win all 80 seats in the state and will register huge victories in Amethi, Rae Bareli and Mainpuri.
"The lotus is going to bloom in all 80 seats. The opposition has no strategy, it is issueless, which is nowhere to be seen in this Lok Sabha election. The opposition is scared because the public has come to know their policy and intentions. The parties of the INDIA bloc are misleading the people of the country," he added.
Speaking on the Amthi constituency -- once considered the Gandhi family bastion, which BJP wrested from Congress in 2019 -- UP Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak said that there is an atmosphere of 'fear' in the Congress party because of which they are not announcing their candidate on Amethi.
"Smriti Irani (incumbent MP) filed her nomination. There is an atmosphere of fear in Congress, so it is not revealing the name of its candidate yet. Congress knows that the people of Amethi have rejected the policies of Congress. Congress had kept the people of Amethi away from government benefits. Under the BJP government and under the leadership of PM Modi, the people of Amethi were given the benefits of all the schemes of the central and state governments," Pathak said.
"Therefore, it will not matter which member of the Congress family contests Amethi's seat. We are achieving big victories everywhere. The people of the country are going to make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister again," he added.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Surendra Rajput made a big claim and said that the BJP and PM Modi are "badly scared," because of which they are no longer making the claim of crossing 400 seats.
"The public has come to know their truth, and this time the BJP will not be able to cross even 150 seats," he said.
Uttar Pradesh sends a maximum of 80 seats to the Lok Sabha. The polling in the state is happening in all seven phases. The counting is scheduled for June 4.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the winner by securing the majority of seats available. Of 80 seats, the BJP won 62, followed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) with 10 seats, the Samajwadi Party (SP) with 5 seats, and the Apna Dal with 2 seats.