UP Political Flashpoint: SP Gains In MLC Polls, Yogi’s Job Rule Sparks Row, RSS Plans Outreach

Name: UP Political Flashpoint: SP Gains In MLC Polls, Yogi’s Job Rule Sparks Row, RSS Plans Outreach
Uploaded: 2026-10-29T13:46:27+00:00
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00:02Months before the crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the state has delivered a verdict

00:07that's made the upcoming contest even more interesting.

00:1111 legislative council seats were up for grabs in a contest between the ruling BJP

00:15and its principal rival in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party.

00:19The BJP won six seats. Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party, has secured five.

00:24So off that 11, it's pretty much split evenly, with the BJP just having an edge with six and SP

00:31at five.

00:32The significance for the SP lies in the comparison with the previous election in 2020.

00:37Then too, the BJP had won six seats. The SP then had won only three. Two had gone to independence.

00:43This time, the BJP has matched its previous tally. The SP, however, has increased its tally by two seats.

00:51One of the key results for the Samajwadi Party, and there's been a lot of discourse over this,

00:55has been about Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Modi.

00:59The SP has retained the Varanasi teacher seat.

01:03But more importantly, the other seat up for grabs in Varanasi, the Varanasi graduate seat,

01:09has also been backed by the SP.

01:11So the party has got victories in both of the seats in the Prime Minister's constituency.

01:16The SP also registered a win in Lucknow.

01:18The Lok Sabok constituency represented by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

01:22This is the Lucknow graduate seat, while the BJP retained the Lucknow teacher seat,

01:27splitting the two contests between the two parties, the two seats between the two parties.

01:32For the BJP, the takeaway is that it remained the single largest party in this election,

01:36winning six of those 11 seats.

01:39And despite losing those two seats in Varanasi and one in Lucknow to the Samajwadi Party,

01:43the BJP did secure a win in Gaurapur, which is the stronghold of the party,

01:47stronghold of Yogi Adityanath.

01:49While the BJP admits it is expected to win more seats and says it will introspect on its performance,

01:54the SP is projecting the verdict as a sign of what's to come in the 2027 Assembly election.

02:01So lots of takeaways for both parties.

02:03Here are all the reactions.

02:07Here are all the reactions.

02:31Here are all the reactions.

02:38Here are all the reactions.

02:43Here are all the emotions.

02:44There are all the people who want to do.

02:52foreign

03:01foreign

03:20Let me bring in Samad Srivastava for more details on how he reads these results that have come

03:29in from the MLCA election. Samad you know usually a lot of focus attention is not given to MLCA elections

03:36but in this particular case considering we're months away from an election in Uttar Pradesh

03:40one that the entire nation is watching out for what do you make as the biggest takeaway you know

03:46is it Advantage BJP or Advantage SP? See Akshita BJP might have won six seats while Samajwadi

03:57party could have bagged around five seats but if you see it's in a way in terms of the elections

04:03that are on the doors 2027 assembly elections then it's a big win for Samajwadi party because

04:08Samajwadi party was at number three with three seats before in 2020 elections but now they have

04:14gathered two more seats and where Samajwadi party have won this is very important it's Varanasi

04:19it's Prayagraj it's Mathura the three seats very important seats because these have been the

04:26stronghold of the BJP also on the type of religious way that the BJP always plays in elections and at

04:32that point of time before in a way winning these particular seats Lucknow another important seat

04:37where Rajna Singh is the Lok Sabha MP so that is also an important seat where Kanthi Singh has won

04:43from Lucknow so BJP at this point of time accepting the defeat and clearly saying that yes we have to

04:48work hard at the points where we failed if we did not expect SP to win on those particular seats

04:54but SP managed to win while Samajwadi party is saying that this is just the teaser the picture

05:00this is the line the Samajwadi party has taken in this particular election though it has nothing to do

05:07with the UP assembly elections which are around four to five months three or four months left for the

05:13assembly elections but yes psychologically we can say that this election has in a way created the mood

05:20of the in a way teachers or graduates because at the point of time Aum Prakash Rajabha the minister is

05:26claiming that these are the votes being given by the graduates by the teachers it's not the public

05:30mood but you have to accept that these are also the part of public it's a small fraction but who

05:35wants to

05:36go with an election any electoral contest will be read into as a precursor of what to expect in the

05:41final in the grand final which will be the assembly election itself Samad I request you to stay with me

05:46we're cutting across to breaking news that's coming in from utah pradesh

05:55now in what's being viewed as a big warning from the yogi administration to regime change backers

06:01the yogi adityanath government has made it clear that individuals linked to organizations seeking

06:07regime change through what it calls violent means will be ineligible for government employment

06:13India today's learned that these revised rules will apply to direct recruitment across government

06:19departments corporations councils and local bodies so big big move there by chief minister yogi adityanath

06:26where in fact a decision has been taken that anyone who's been part of an organization that

06:30resorted to violent means and pushed for regime change will not be eligible for a government

06:37opportunity for a government job Samad you know what is the wording exactly here because there will be a lot

06:43of questions about the terms and conditions how this works which organizations are actually a no-go

06:49for the yogi government have they been named see it's a big thing that has come in Uttar Pradesh

06:58clearly the document we have got stated that whosoever student who will be in a way found in those

07:06particular protests which are about the regime change or the students who have found links with those who are in

07:11a way urging the students to come in protest for the regime change will not be conceded for the

07:17government jobs that's what the letter of a senior IS officer who is in that particular department claims

07:24and this is a big thing in Uttar Pradesh because we are seeing many such protests happening all across

07:29the nation and that at that point of time yogi government has come up with this particular order

07:33we have seen many protests happening around this particular state about recruitments those are pending

07:40either in UPSC or in UPSCC but now though this order also clarifies that it is about the regime change

07:47it has

07:47nothing to do with the political ideology of any particular student like if any political students support

07:53Samajwadi Party or Congress Party the government has nothing to do with that it's only about the call of regime

07:59change if any

08:00student was found supporting the regime change thing or was found participating in such protests

08:06which are about the regime change they will definitely not be considered for the government jobs in the state of

08:11Uttar Pradesh

08:11The challenge is Samajwadi just explain this further to us because right now considering we've been seeing protests by some

08:18groups who've spoken of regime change but that hasn't been the theme of the agitation will that mean that anyone

08:23who participates

08:24in that protest therefore is automatically disqualified from getting an opportunity to work in the UP government

08:34That's a good part Akshita because we see that they have called for the regime change but now as you

08:39just said

08:40the opposition parties are slamming the BJP and the UP government for this particular thing

08:44they are saying that this rule that has come up by the UP government is against the constitution

08:50they are in a way trying to take up the freedom, the choice, the right to act

08:56which is already written in constitution of those particular students or those particular

09:00people who try to be a good government officer

09:03they are now shutting the voice of those who come up to raise their voices in their protest

09:08the SP leaders, the congress leaders are now saying if any recruitment is pending for years

09:13what a student will do whether he will sit inside his room inside his home and just wait for 4

09:19-5 years for that particular thing

09:20and when he will hit the ground you will call him a regime change person

09:23so that has been the thing whether the policeman will differentiate between a normal protest or a regime change protest

09:30because it's very easy to label anyone by anything

09:34if a student is protesting for any recruitment which is pending for years you can't call it a regime change

09:40that's what the opposition parties are claiming, now we have to see what BJP has to say about that

09:44so a lot of questions on whether something like this can actually be misused against individuals

09:51also because there's a lot of loopholes that can be misused as well

09:56you know there is absolute clarity that's needed really on what the government intends to do

10:01by putting across this kind of an order and whether authorities will be able to actually crack down in the

10:07manner that they actually envision

10:09or will it be based on how they deem fit

10:11thanks very much Samad for those details

10:13let's cut across to more breaking news from Selection Express

10:23Now as the BJP has been looking to retain Uttar Pradesh and rest power from AAP in Punjab

10:28the RSS is set to also step in, hit the ground running in these election states

10:33with special focus we are hearing on Uttar Pradesh as well as Punjab

10:38here's what we have learnt on India today, that the Sang will now discuss strategies to counter what it calls

10:43as anti-national forces

10:45those fomenting chaos and the growing drug menace

10:48this is something that will be brought up in a key meeting that the RSS is holding in Indore on

10:53November 2nd and 3rd

10:55in Uttar Pradesh the special focus will be on countering the opposition's campaign over SIR

10:59in Punjab, the spotlight is going to be on the drug menace issue

11:03this is pretty much how the BJP has also been going forward with their campaign

11:07but the RSS now is also going to step in

11:10Aishwarya Paliwale is joining us live with more details on this Aishwarya

11:13give us a sense of really what kind of, you know, what level of stepping in by the RSS are

11:21we really looking at here

11:23well you know Akshita, one of the things that the RSS has been doing over the past few months

11:27is making sure that they get a sense of what the people are thinking

11:31and whether do they really believe in everything that the opposition has been saying over the past few months

11:36and the sense that the RSS got is that some of the issues like the need issues

11:40yes they were big issues for the people

11:41but the other issues like the removal of the CEC

11:44and questioning the entire electoral process that is being followed

11:47that is something that the common man does not really believe in

11:50the big two elections on the horizon

11:53in the state of Uttar Pradesh and also in the state of Punjab

11:56the RSS believes that door-to-door meetings, house-to-house meetings

12:00that is something which is required so that they can tell the people

12:02the kind of work that the Bharki Janta party has done in the state of Uttar Pradesh over the past

12:07decade

12:08and the kind of work they are looking at doing in the state of Punjab

12:11the drug menace something which is very very huge

12:13we have seen it in the state of Punjab

12:15one after the other Akshita unfortunate incidents

12:17have been coming to the fore over the past many years

12:20the RSS believes that it can tell the people

12:23that this is something that the BJP has been focusing on

12:26something that Home Minister Amit Shah over the past few months has been speaking about

12:29it will surely turn the people and it will surely turn the tide

12:33in the favour of the Bharki Janta party

12:34especially in the state of Punjab

12:36okay thanks Aishwarya for those details

12:38let's switch focus now from Uttar Pradesh to Punjab

12:41we've got a number of news breaks lined up for you

12:44let's cut across to that

12:47we've been seeing of course a big showdown over law and order in Punjab

12:51particularly over the drug crisis

12:53the BJP has been going all guns blazing against the Bhagavatam government

12:57and now they're pushing for early poll code of conduct to come into place in Punjab

13:03why because they're calling the state lawless

13:05the Punjab BJP shot off a letter to the governor in this regard

13:08saying that to tackle the law and order situation

13:11the model code of conduct must immediately come into effect

13:15they're also saying that this is because any attempt to go ahead with the campaign

13:20including an anti-drug marathon that the BJP planned

13:23they weren't given permission

13:25and the cops denied a nod citing law and order

13:29remember that usually you'll see the code of conduct kicking in

13:32once the election commission announces polls

13:35which is a couple of months away

13:36but now the BJP is saying do that ASAP

13:39to ensure the weakened campaign

13:41and because there is no law and order in the state

13:46going on

13:47or to ensure the law and order situation

13:49.

13:50.

13:51.

13:53.

13:53Why did it happen?

13:55It's a direct person.

13:59The person who is a person,

14:01is a person.

14:03The person who is a person is a person.

14:05He is a person.

14:06He has to know

14:09if they have their own knowledge

14:10or if they have their own people

14:11or if they have a person

14:13or if they have a person

14:17they have to fight

14:19the people who have fought

14:36Asim Basi is joining us live from Chandigarh with more details on this.

14:40Asim, run us through the demand that's coming from the BJP and if there's been any response

14:44that's coming from the governor yet.

14:52Mr. Vin Chandigarh, he said that they were holding an annual marathon in Abohar, that anti-drug marathon.

14:58But now the Abohar police over there, they have denied permission saying, considering the

15:03law and order situation, the permission for the anti-drug marathon cannot be given.

15:06Now, looking at this, Sunil Jakar, who's a veteran leader of the BJP, previously he was a Congress

15:13leader, has now shot a letter to the Punjab governor saying that they look at the condition

15:17of the law and order in Punjab that a marathon cannot be conducted.

15:21And he also given references of the spate of incidents that have taken place in Punjab,

15:26a flurry of incidents, a flurry of murders that have taken place, and he has requested

15:29the governor that the model code of conduct should be implemented at the earliest considering

15:34the state of law and order in Punjab.

15:36During the press, he also said that there is total lawlessness in Punjab.

15:41We've seen the Punjab police cops being killed, ASIs being killed, the Mansai incident, the

15:47Sangroor incident, and a flurry of incidents that have rocked the law and order situation in

15:51Punjab, especially yesterday's incident in Tarantaran as well, where one person was shot

15:55down in a broad daylight and two were injured, and open gunfire was recorded in the video.

15:59All right, thanks, Aseem, for those details.

16:10And trouble mounts for the Bhagavatam government.

16:13The National Commission for Minorities has taken cognizance of the death of 35-year-old Daljeet Singh.

16:19They've sought a report from the Punjab police in a week.

16:21This comes after a BJP Punjab leader met the Minorities Commission chairman and raised the issue

16:26of Daljeet Singh's death.

16:29Remember that in this particular case, we're talking about the death of a 35-year-old.

16:34It triggered public anger.

16:36His family claimed he died of drug overdose.

16:39And then the police, in that viral footage that you see on the right of your screens,

16:43amid public anger, actually carried away the mortal remains of Daljeet, which prompted protests

16:49and demands for accountability for answers from the Maand government.

16:53Now, you've got the National Commission for Minorities also stepping in,

16:57seeking answers from the Punjab police in a week on the manner in which they handled this case.

17:02The National Commission for Minorities

17:04The National Commission for Minorities

17:05The National Commission for Minorities

17:06The National Commission for Minorities

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