With trends showing a clear majority for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and a severe drubbing for the SP-Congress alliance limiting it below the 100-mark figure, the Congress party today jumped into the defence of
Reacting to the verdict, party MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath said that people in Uttar Pradesh have rejected the politics of appeasement and discrimination.
BJP has stolen an early March over its rivals forging ahead in nearly constituencies, leaving rivals SP-Congress combine and the BSP far behind going by trends available during the first three hours of counting.
Overjoyed BJP workers, leaders and supporters hugged each other, broke into brief jigs and raised victory slogans at the party headquarters in the national capital as well as the Lucknow office.
The BJP today registered a stunning victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, trampling a fragmented opposition that had hoped the demonetisation exercise would have chipped away at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.
UP election results live: Early trends in counting for UP Assembly polls show that BJP is heading for majority in politically-crucial state.
Uttar Pradesh has witnessed long phases of instability and fractured mandate in the past.
Trashing exit poll projections on likely winners of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday said the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance will form the next government in the state.
Muzaffarnagar district authorities have banned victory processions to maintain law and order after the results of the UP Assembly polls are announced tomorrow.
Launching a scathing attack on expelled party leader Amar Singh, Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav today said that he was “kicked out” of the party and that he cannot win even from a single polling booth.
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has said that party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav will be responsible if the Akhilesh Yadav-led government is ousted from the state.
Rejecting the exit poll results for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that the actual results will be entirely different.
Dimple Yadav, the wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party MP from Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency, emerged as a major crowd puller for her party in the UP Assembly elections this year.
Polling in 40 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats spread across seven districts and 22 constituencies in Manipur began at 7 am amid tight security.
Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah today said that the party’s decision not to project any chief ministerial face for the UP Assembly elections was deliberate.
The Pentagon has accused Iranian vessels of coming dangerously close to a US Navy surveillance ship in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.
Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said that her son Varun Gandhi could not campaign for BJP in UP Assembly polls because he was “too busy” with other priorities.
PM Modi has been canvassing for three days in Varanasi which elected him to Lok Sabha.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi went all out to attack Narendra Modi and said the Prime Minister has grown old and must be feeling tired.
40 seats spread over seven eastern districts, including five in Varanasi, will go to polls on March 8, bringing curtains down on the two month-long exercise staggered in seven phases.
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