Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur Election Results 2022 Live Updates: The BJP trounced the Samajwadi Party to storm back to power in Uttar Pradesh with chief minister Yogi Adityanath asserting that people have buried the politics of caste and religion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed Adityanath’s feat and suggested that the victory in Uttar Pradesh will pave the wave for the BJP’s win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
According to latest poll figures, the BJP-led NDA led on 275 seats, with the BJP along 255 seats, becoming the first party in over three decades to form a government for a second consecutive time in the state. The Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav and its allies lost after a spirited bid to dislodge the BJP. The SP-RLD alliance led on 124 seats.
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Friday cautioned the opposition against the “false narrative” being set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the “battle for India will be fought and decided in 2024”, and not in state elections. Read More
UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead we should learn form it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power: BSP chief Mayawati
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Adityanath defeated his nearest rival Subhawati Shukla of the SP in the Gorakhpur Urban constituency by a whopping margin of 1.03 lakh votes. However, his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya lost in Sirathu by 7,337 votes to SP's Pallavi Patel. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav won from the Karhal assembly seat by a margin of 67,504 votes, defeating Union minister SP Singh Baghel of the BJP.