UP Special: After independence, how was the first election amphitheater in Ayodhya decorated? Watch Special Report History is Witness

New Delhi: The Election Commission has announced the dates for the assembly elections in five states. Elections in UP will be held in seven phases. In Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa, polling will be held in one phase on February 14. Voting will be held in Manipur in two phases. The result of all the states will come on March 10.

Due to Corona, the Election Commission has imposed many restrictions. Under this, the Election Commission has issued guidelines. Road shows, padyatras, cycle or vehicle rallies have been banned in the election states. Apart from this, the campaign curfew will remain in force from 8 pm to 8 am. This ban will remain in force till January 15.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of independent India and Govind Vallabh Pant became the Chief Minister of UP, whose heart always beat for the farmers and the poor. There was no leader in UP who could cut his point. But politics in India was beginning to take a new shape. Many big leaders were sidelined from the Congress, among them Acharya Narendra Dev, a socialist thinker. 13 MLAs from the Socialist faction had resigned from the UP Assembly.

After this the by-election was announced. Faizabad had become a hot seat in the by-election. The matter is in 1948, the dates for the by-election to the Faizabad assembly seat were announced. Congress fielded Hindu saint Baba Raghav Das as its candidate against socialist Acharya Narendra Dev. Born in Maharashtra, Baba Raghav Das’s Karmabhoomi was Eastern UP. For the first time in this election, the issue of temple construction in Ayodhya became a big issue. Govind Vallabh Pant said many times in his election speeches that Narendra Dev does not believe in Ram.

Elections were held and Acharya Narendra Dev lost by just 1,312 votes. Baba Raghav Das won by making Ram temple a big issue. However, after the victory, Raghav Das repeatedly told in public forums that Narendra Dev was a better candidate than him. In this way, only after independence, Shri Ganesh of Ayodhya had become in the politics of vote.