POSTAL BALLOT: THE HORROR FOR OPPOSITION PARTIES IN UP!

New Delhi: Five phases of polling have been held in Uttar Pradesh. In the five phases, a total of around 10 and a half crore voters and an average of around 60 per cent voting has been done.

Apart from these, a little more than 4.5 lakh postal ballots have been cast, which is 0.43 percent of the total voter turnout. These are not included in the voting percentage.

The opposition parties are very concerned about the vote cast by postal ballot as never before has the postal ballot been so important.

Along with the opposition parties, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait has also expressed apprehension about this and said that the government may try to change the results with this.

The question is, can the results be changed from the 4 lakh 56 thousand postal ballots that have been cast so far? Before answering this question, you need to know that it is true that postal ballots mostly go in favor of BJP.

Military personnel and middle-class government employees who cast their votes through postal ballots, tend to favor the BJP. On top of that, government employees are also identified with the ballot, hence the sword hangs on their heads.

This time, the elderly above 80 years of age and persons with disabilities with more than 40 per cent disability have also got the right to vote through postal ballot. That’s why this year more votes have been cast in the postal ballot than before.

As far as changing the result is concerned, in a multicornered contest, the margin of victory and defeat in most of the seats is small.

This time it is likely in Uttar Pradesh. A funny fact is that so far in 292 seats, an average of one and a half thousand postal ballots per seat has been polled, but in 58 seats in the first phase, this average is more than two thousand votes.

In the 58 seats of the first phase, one lakh 23 thousand votes have been cast through postal ballot i.e. an average of more than 21 hundred votes. These will definitely affect the results in many seats.