By PTI
LUCKNOW: The BJP stormed again to energy within the essential state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, trouncing its important rival Samajwadi Party, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserting that folks have buried the politics of caste and faith.
The saffron social gathering with its allies was profitable or main in 274 seats out of 403, changing into the primary social gathering in over three many years to kind a authorities for a second consecutive time within the state.
The Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav and its allies misplaced after a spirited bid to dislodge the BJP, profitable or main in 124 seats, whereas nationwide events just like the Congress (two two seats) and the BSP (one seat) have been decreased to insignificance within the race.
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As counting of votes continued late into the night time, Adityanath had established a lead of 1.3 lakh votes over his nearest rival Subhawati Shukla of the SP within the Gorakhpur Urban constituency.
However, his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya misplaced in Sirathu by 7,337 votes to SP’s Pallavi Patel.
Influential OBC chief Swami Prasad Maurya, who stop the BJP and the Adityanath cabinet to hitch the SP forward of the meeting elections, misplaced in Fazilnagar by greater than 45,000 votes.
The BJP was profitable or main in 256 seats, Apna Dal (Sonelal) and the NISHAD social gathering, the 2 allies of the BJP, are profitable or main in 12 seats and 6 seats respectively, in response to the Election Commission (EC) web site.
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In the opposition camp, the SP was profitable or main in 110 seats and its allies Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) has eight seats and the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party had received or was forward in six seats.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed Adityanath’s feat and prompt that the victory in Uttar Pradesh will pave the wave for the BJP’s win within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Lauding BJP employees for making certain an early Holi by making the social gathering victorious in 4 states, Modi mentioned its vote share has elevated in Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and Goa though it was in energy within the states.
The social gathering has additionally retained energy in Uttarkhand.
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In Lucknow, addressing joyous BJP employees on the social gathering’s state headquarters, Adityanath mentioned the “misleading” marketing campaign run by the Opposition over the previous 2-3 days has been put aside by the individuals who reposed religion within the good governance of the BJP.
He was apparently focusing on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over EVM tampering allegations.
“The false propaganda regarding EVMs and election material over the last few days have been rejected,” Adityanath mentioned.
“The People of UP have buried the dynastic politics and also politics of caste and religion by ensuring victory to the BJP and its allies,” Adityanath, who was the BJP’s face in Uttar Pradesh polls, mentioned.
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According to the EC web site at 10.30 PM, outcomes had been declared on 369 seats, whereas counting was happening 34 seats.
Dara Singh Chauhan, one other minister who had stop the cabinet together with Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini to hitch the SP, has received the Ghosi seat by 22,216.
Saini misplaced the elections to BJP’s Mukesh Choudhary by 315 votes.
State Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was languishing on the third spot within the Tamukhi Raj meeting constituency, in response to the EC web site.
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Amid the rout of the social gathering, Congress legislature social gathering chief Aradhana Mishra received from her household’s conventional Rampur Khas constituency in Pratapgarh district.
According to the EC, the BJP’s vote share stands at 41.3 %, whereas that of the SP stood at 32 %.
The vote share of the BSP is 12.9 % and that of the RLD is 2.93 %.
The vote share of the Congress is 2.37 % whereas that of AAP and AIMIM was lower than .5 % every.
Though it registered a landslide victory in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party filed to open its account in Uttar Pradesh the place it contested on all 403 seats.
Similar was the destiny of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi headed AIMIM which had fielded candidates in 100 seats.
Excited BJP supporters smeared color (gulal) on one another and rolled out bulldozers in Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Varanasi amongst different locations to have a good time the victory.
Adityanath, who is mostly known as “Maharaj ji”, earned this new sobriquet of “bulldozer baba” in the course of the present elections as a result of his frequent reference of the heavy machine that authorities deployed to raze the ill-gotten property of criminals and mafias within the state below his rule.