Gorakhpur Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results - Gorakhpur is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The state has 80 parliamentary seats. The Gorakhpur seat comprises 5 Assembly segments including Caimpiyarganj, Pipraich, Gorakhpururban, Gorakhpurrural, Sahajanwa. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The BJP, the SP are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Ravindra Shyamnarayan Shukla Alias Ravi Kishan from BJP won the seat with a margin of 301,664 votes. Ravindra Shyamnarayan Shukla Alias Ravi Kishan was polled 717,122 votes with a vote share of 61.00 % and defeated Rambhual Nishad from SP who got 415,458 votes (35.06 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Adityanath from BJP won the seat and was polled 539,127 votes with a vote share of 51.80%. SP Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results -SP candidate Rajmati Nishad got 226,344 votes (21.75 %) and was the runner-up.Adityanath defeated Rajmati Nishad by a margin of 312,783 votes.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen criticized the Indian government upon his arrival in Kolkata, emphasizing the need for political open-mindedness and secularism. Sen highlighted issues such as wrongful imprisonments, economic disparities, among others.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury lost to TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan in Baharampur constituency by around 85,022 votes, according to the Election Commission of India data. Adhir Chowdhury secured 4,39,494 votes while Yusuf Pathan secured 5,24,516 votes.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: According to the EC's Standard Operating Procedure, the cost submitted by manufacturers BEL and ECIL to carry out EVM "check and verification" is Rs 40,000 (plus 18 per cent GST) per set of EVM.
PM Modi visited ancient Nalanda University ruins in Bihar ahead of inaugurating the new Nalanda University campus in Rajgir. This was his first visit to state since Lok Sabha polls. Established around 1,600 years ago, the original Nalanda University is among world's first residential residential.
The BJP failed to replicate its 2019 show and was restricted to 33 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The regional BJP headquarters has received a report listing out the reasons behind the party's drubbing in the state.