PolitiClone: States of surprise

Assembly elections are due in six states in 2012: Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Gujarat, Goa and Manipur. The biggest of them all, Uttar Pradesh, was supposed to have been a face-off between Mayawati and Rahul Gandhi. But there's another player in the arena. The BJP's move to introduce Uma Bharati and put Hindutva hardliner Rajnath Singh in charge of the state seems to have met with some measure of success.

In UP, 38 per cent say Uma's return has helped the BJP. In Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal's Akali Dal has a slim edge in the general elections, but within the state, Congress candidate Amarinder Singh is ahead. Andhra seems to be slipping out of the Congress grasp even though no elections are slated in the near future. The threat is not from the TDP but the breakaway Congress faction led by Jaganmohan Reddy. Both the Congress and Jagan have polled 37 per cent each in the state.After he swept the recent by-elections in the state,two Congress general secretaries, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Digvijaya Singh, tried to woo Jagan back to the party. His polite 'no'will have an electoral resonance during the next polls.

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