My cab driver yesterday recounted his pandemic experiences after the hastily announced and strictly implemented lockdown in 2020. He said those who criticised migrants for rushing to leave Mumbai and go home to their villages and towns must first consider what they faced here. 1/ He said what we know but don’t acknowledge: construction labourers, factory workers, drivers, people who came to Mumbai in search of employment and did odd jobs to survive—were abandoned by the state, by their employers, and by us. They had nowhere to live, no money, no food. 2/

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Every vote counts. How? Examine what happened in the last elections.

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2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections: Seats Won

—BJP: 312
—SP: 47
—BSP: 19
—INC: 7
(SP-INC pre-poll alliance. Seat-sharing: SP contested 298 seats; Congress 105)

Total: 403 seats —47 of the 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh were decided by victory margins of less than 5,000 votes in the 2017 polls
—Of these, BJP won the most, 23 (it came second in 15)
—SP won 13 (it came second in 17)
—BSP won 8
—INC won 1
—RLD won 1
—Apna Dal (Soneylal) won 1

2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls — Seats Won

—BJP: 312
—SP: 47
—BSP: 19
—INC: 7
(SP-INC pre-poll alliance. Seat-sharing: SP contested 298 seats; Congress 105)

Total: 403 seats

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—47 of the 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh were decided by victory margins of less than 5,000 votes
—Of these, BJP won the most, 23 (it came second in 15)
—SP won 13 (it came second in 17)
—BSP won 8
—INC won 1
—RLD won 1
—Apna Dal (Soneylal) won 1