New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS): As polling on 58 assembly seats spread in 11 districts of western Uttar Pradesh ended on Thursday, the BJP expressed confidence of sweeping the region in this year's assembly polls also. In 2017, the party won 53 of the 58 constituencies where polling was held in the first phase.

Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Harish Chandra Srivastava told IANS that the party will easily win more than 50 seats in the first phase of assembly polls. "There is a wave in favour of the BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. People are voting in favour of the BJP government. The feedback and reports collected from ground clearly indicate that the BJP will easily win more than 50 seats of 58 in the first phase," Srivastava said.

Another senior saffron party leader claims that like last time, this time the BJP also swept the assembly constituencies where polling was held in the first phase. "People today voted to re-elect Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for the second time in a row. Voters in these 58 assembly constituencies are voting for development, law and order, and people centric governance of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi," he said.

The BJP claims that people have rejected the repeated attempts to polarize the election on caste and religious line by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance. "The SP-RLD alliance left no stone unturned to polarize the polls on Jat-non Jat or Hindu-Muslim. But the voters have rejected their attempt to polarize the polls. People have voted to take Uttar Pradesh to a new height of development," a party insider said.