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  • Congress gears up for municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The Congress, which confronted a debacle within the 2022 meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, has began preparations for contesting the upcoming municipal polls more likely to be held later this yr within the state.

    The celebration will launch a digital membership drive with an purpose to achieve 1.5 crore individuals via it, its state spokesman Krishnakant Pandey mentioned on Monday. “The party has identified seven zones in UP for preparations for the elections,” Pandey mentioned.

    The state has 17 municipal companies, over 200 municipal councils and 450 metropolis councils. The celebration has requested possible candidates to file an software type through which they should give particulars of 300 supporters, amongst others.

    “For favourable results in municipal elections, the party has decided to expand its outreach programme with a special focus on social media. We are planning to launch digital membership drive and aim to reach 1.5 crore people through it,” mentioned Pandey.

    The celebration will even appoint ward in-charges and a grievance redressal committee at district stage, the spokesman mentioned.

    However, he didn’t reveal whether or not the celebration will combat alone within the municipal elections or will type an alliance with any celebration.

    The Congress contested on all 403 seats within the current UP meeting elections, however managed to safe victory on solely two seats. The celebration had gained seven seats in 2017 meeting elections.

  • Uttar Pradesh: Voting for 27 Legislative Council seats underway

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Voting for 27 seats coming underneath native authorities’ constituencies within the biennial polls for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council commenced on Saturday.

    According to the workplace of the Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer, there are 95 candidates within the fray.

    Polling will happen at 739 centres, and as many as 1,20,657 voters anticipated to train their franchise.

    Voting shall be held for the next native authorities’ constituencies — Moradabad-Bijnor, Rampur-Bareilly, Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Lucknow-Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Sultanpur, Barabanki, Bahraich, Gonda, Faizabad, Basti-Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur-Maharajganj, Deoria, Azamgarh-Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur, Kanpur-Fatehpur, Etawah-Farrukhabad, Agra-Firozabad, Meerut-Ghaziabad and Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur.

    These seats are unfold over 58 districts within the state.

    Voting started at 8 am and can proceed until 4 pm.

    Counting will happen on April 12.

    Nine MLCs from eight native authorities’ constituencies have been elected unopposed.

    The constituencies are Budaun, Hardoi, Kheri, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Banda-Hamirpur, Aligarh, Bulandshahr and Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri.

    Two MLCs have been elected unopposed from the Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri native authorities’ constituency, whereas from the remainder of the constituencies, one MLC every was elected unopposed.

    Following a powerful victory within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the BJP has set its eye on turning into the single-largest get together within the state Legislative Council as properly by profitable a majority of the 36 Upper House seats.

    It is a chance for the saffron get together to get pleasure from a majority in each the Houses of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature.

    In the 100-member Legislative Council, the BJP presently has 34 MLCs, the Samajwadi Party 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Party 4.

    The Congress, Apna Dal (Sonelal) and NISHAD get together have one member every within the House.

    The Teachers’ group has 2 MLCs, whereas the impartial group (‘Nirdal Samooh’) and Independents have 1 MLC every.

    As many as 38 seats are vacant at current.

    Addressing BJP employees every week in the past, Chief Minister Adityanath mentioned it was vital for the get together to win the 36 seats to advance his authorities’s development agenda with none hurdle.

    “Of these 36 seats, the BJP has won nine unopposed. If the party wins all the 36 seats, you can assume that it will have a two-third majority in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and have no problem in taking forward the development schemes expeditiously,” he mentioned.

    The voters on this biennial election are village pradhans, members and chairman of block improvement councils, members and chairman of zila panchayat, and corporators in city areas.

    MLAs and MPs are additionally voters on this ballot.

    The Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party haven’t fielded any candidate within the legislative council polls, making it a straight struggle between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party, the principal opposition within the state Assembly.

    Of the 36 BJP candidates, 5 are former Samajwadi Party leaders, who joined the saffron camp on the eve of the February-March state polls.

    They are Shailendra Pratap Singh from Sultanpur native authority constituency, C P Chand from the Gorakhpur-Maharajganj native authorities, Ravishankar Singh ‘Pappu’, the grandson of former prime minister Chandrasekhar, from Ballia native authorities, Rama Niranjan from Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur native authorities and Narendra Bhati from Bulandshahr native authorities.

    The Samajwadi Party has declared its candidates for 34 seats, leaving the Meerut-Ghaziabad and Bulandshahr seats for its ally the Rashtriya Lok Dal.

    Prominent amongst those that have been fielded are Dr Kafeel Khan from Deoria, Mashkoor Ahmad from Rampur-Bareilly, sitting MLCs Sunil Kumar Sajan, Rajesh Kumar and Udayveer Singh from Lucknow-Unnao, Barabanki, and Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri seats respectively.

    Adityanath has lately give up the Legislative Council seat after getting elected as an MLA from Gorakhpur Urban seat.

    With the demise of Leader of the Opposition within the Council Ahmad Hasan on February 19 after a protracted sickness, the Samajwadi Party has named Sanjay Lathar to the submit.

    In the recently-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the BJP has gained 255 seats, whereas its allies Apna Dal (Sonelal) and NISHAD get together have gained 12 and 6 seats respectively.

    The Samajwadi Party has gained 111 seats, whereas its ally the Rashtriya Lok Dal has gained eight.

    The SBSP, one other ally of the Samajwadi Party, has gained six seats.

    The Congress has gained two seats, whereas the BSP has gained one seat.

  • CM Adityanath, Akhilesh Yadav take oath as members of UP Assembly

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took oath as member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

    After Adityanath, Akhilesh Yadav, who has been named because the Leader of the Opposition, took oath as MLA.

    While Adityanath gained the current state polls from the Gorakhpur Urban seat, Yadav was elected as an MLA from the Karhal meeting constituency.

    Pro-tem speaker Ramapati Shastri administered oath to members within the House.

  • Patel slammed for Yogi-Modi comment    

    By Express News Service

    AHMEDABAD:  “No one can break the Modi-Yogi jodi (pair), and no one has been able to become the chief minister in Uttar Pradesh for a second consecutive time. This is the first time a BJP chief minister has formed the government in UP for the second time,” stated Uttar Pradesh Governer Anandiben Patel in Gujarat on Sunday She was talking after presiding over the earth-breaking ceremony of the Kiran Medical school at Surat district.

    Meanwhile, the UP Governor’s assertion was strongly opposed by the Gujarat Congress. According to celebration spokesperson Manish Doshi, “Both the Governor and the President of India are constitutional posts and the person holding the post should maintain the dignity of the post. A person sitting in this position, even if he/she belongs to a political party, should do away with political statements.”

    Incidentally, political analysts are additionally linking Anandiben’s assertion with the forthcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat.  Dilip Patel, a political analyst, stated, “One thing to remember is that Anandiben is a sharp politician who never states without a reason. After Bhupendra Patel’s regime came to power, the clout of Anandiben has increased and anyone here can feel it.”

    “So her Modi-Yogi account means that she believes that the C R Patil (state BJP chief)-Bhupendra Patel pair will mean similar connotations for the polls in Gujarat,” he stated. 
     

  • Swearing-in ceremony of Uttar Pradesh authorities to held on March 25

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh will likely be held within the state capital on March 25, a senior authorities official mentioned on Friday.

    The ceremony will happen at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ikana stadium in Lucknow at 4 pm on March 25, he mentioned.

    Before the ceremony, Yogi Adityanath, who led the social gathering to a thumping victory within the simply concluded elections, will likely be elected because the chief of the House, social gathering sources mentioned. This is the second consecutive time period of Adityanath.

    Senior BJP leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP nationwide president J P Nadda, are more likely to attend the occasion, sources mentioned.

    Besides chief ministers of different BJP-ruled states are additionally anticipated to attend the operate, they mentioned, including that high leaders of opposition events may even be prolonged the invites.

    Massive preparations for the operate have already began whereby beneficiaries of varied schemes of the earlier Yogi Adityanath authorities, together with girls, will likely be invited, they mentioned.

    The measurement of the ministry or who all will likely be taking oath on the day is just not clear as of now, they added.

    The BJP gained 255 seats within the 403-member meeting and its allies gained 18 seats, paving approach for the saffron social gathering to return to energy for the second consecutive time period.

    Elections within the northern state have been held in seven phases and the outcomes have been introduced on March 10.

  • Lesson from state polls 2022: Caste to class, BJP reaps good thing about welfare schemes

    The Uttar Pradesh Assembly election is over, with an incredible victory for BJP. Yogi Adityanath is once more going to kind the federal government, with extra warning and a balancing perspective.

    The UP election and even the election in Uttarakhand despatched out messages we have to learn. The first message from UP is, a category has began rising within the caste-based society, particularly among the many marginalised and poor communities.

    The course of is sluggish, however it has began. This course of began not due to any Left ideology, however because of the socio-economic empowerment of the poor communities. The Narendra Modi-led BJP authorities since 2014 began varied social welfare schemes equivalent to Ujjwala Yojana, free ration, PM Awas Yojana, direct money switch and pension plans. 

    Every social gathering in energy makes its personal beneficiaries, however BJP by fixed join with the beneficiaries, reworked them right into a group with consciousness. The social gathering reworked them from a mere bodily physique to acutely aware beings who vote for the social gathering.

    Badri Narayan

    This beneficiary group is past caste and faith and it emerged as a group that broke its caste id boundaries. Modi appealed to the social gathering’s cadres to go to the homes of the PM Awas Yojana beneficiaries on the day of Diwali, mild candles with them and distribute sweets.

    The BJP invented varied methods to attach with these beneficiaries. But this beneficiary consciousness is transitory and the social gathering must consistently give you new plans for his or her empowerment, for progressively responding to those rising aspirational consciousness of the poor and marginalised.

    It could be very attention-grabbing to watch that the social gathering began its election marketing campaign in UP with developmental claims and describing its success in delivering varied social welfare schemes among the many poor and marginalised. Dharmendra Pradhan, minister of training and in-charge of UP election 2022, facilitated cadres to work together with these beneficiaries and encourage them to go to the polling cubicles. This mobilising technique labored.

    We have been observing the trajectories of UP elections carefully. What we noticed when PM Narendra Nodi took the lead of of the marketing campaign, it introduced a qualitative change in the complete electioneering course of. His charisma, methods of connecting with individuals labored properly and lots of BJP candidates who might have misplaced, in the end received. For us on the sector who have been observing this, it was like magic, what individuals name Modi magic.

    Thirdly, BJP as a really efficient election machine labored properly and harnessed this victory. Its star campaigners equivalent to Modi, Yogi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh have been making an impression by their rallies and conferences. On the opposite hand, hardworking organisers equivalent to Pradhan, labored tirelessly on the bottom.

    Last however not the least, the Sangh cadres labored voluntarily throughout this election and organised native conflict rooms. They additionally  interacted with the beneficiaries, aside from working on the sales space degree. All this put collectively produced such a outcome, not solely in UP but additionally in Uttarakhanad. This beneficiary consciousness and Modi magic produced this victory, which could have come as a shock to many.

    Badri Narayan
    Director, GB Pant Social Science Institute, Prayagraj

  • SP sweeps polls in 5 UP districts on method of higher coordination between candidates, get together

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) may need not succeeded in sending Yogi Adityanath again to his ‘Muth’ in Gorakhpur, however the get together, led by Akhilesh Yadav, put up an exemplary efficiency in a minimum of 5 districts making a clear sweep over 28 seats unfold throughout 4 jap UP and one western UP district.

    The jap UP districts the place SP scored cent per cent seats comprised of Ambedkarnagar with 5 constituencies, Kaushambi with three, Ghazipur with seven, Azamgarh with 10, and Shamli with three seats within the west. On the opposite, BJP made a clear sweep in 23 districts throughout UP.

    While higher coordination between the candidate and the get together group led the Samajwadi Party to fare nicely in 5 districts, the BJP group was discovered lacking in these districts costing the get together closely. In 2017, the BJP had received 13 of 28 seats throughout these 5 districts and this time it had drawn a clean.

    In Azamgarh, thought-about to be the turf of Akhilesh Yadav with the dominance of Muslim and Yadav mixture, BJP had received one seat of Phulpur Pawai of the ten in 2017. The BSP had received 4 seats in earlier elections. This time, SP received all the ten seats regardless of the pronounced anti-incumbency not solely towards the SP MLAs but in addition towards Akhilesh Yadav who represents Azamgarh in Lok Sabha.

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    In Ambedkarnagar, the place BJP had bagged two seats and BSP three of the 5 segments in earlier 2017 polls, SP received all 5. SP’s success in Ambedkarnagar might be attributed to the BSP bigwigs like Lalji Verma from Katehari, Ram Achal Rajbhar from Akbarpur, and Rajesh Pandey from Jalapur, who defected to SP final yr and romped dwelling with excessive fly colors as SP candidates on this election.

    Kaushambi, which is taken into account to be the house turf of BJP outstanding OBC face and deputy CM Keshav Maurya, was misplaced within the overconfidence of the candidates regardless of humungous rallies of PM Modi and Amit Shah. All the three seats – Sirathu, Manjhanpur (SC) and Chail– which the BJP had received in 2017, slipped of its fingers with the largest jolt coming within the type of the defeat of Keshav Prasad Maurya in Sirathu. Pallavi Patel of  Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), who had reluctantly contested on SP image trounced Maurya with a margin of over 7,000 votes. SP had put the battery of its senior leaders together with chief Akhilesh Yadav himself, his spouse Dimple Yadav and RS MP Jaya Bachchan to hunt votes for Patel. The different two seats have been additionally received by the SP.

    Ghazipur within the far east is taken into account to be the turf of OP Rajbhar of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) with respectable chunks of Rajbhars within the inhabitants. While the BJP had received 5 of the seven Ghazipur seats in alliance with Rajbhar 2017, this time, it misplaced all as Rajbhar had joined the SP camp benefitting it with the caste arithmetic.

    Similarly, Shamli within the west got here as a jolt to the ruling get together as its excessive profile cane minister Suresh Rana misplaced his Thanabhawan. The affect of farmers’ protest coupled with anti-incumbency towards the sitting MLAs price dearly to the BJP. In 2017, the get together had received two — Thanabhawan, Shamli — of the three seats, However, SP’s Nahid Hassan, accused of forcing Hindus emigrate, had emerged victorious from Kairana. This time additionally, regardless of Amit Shah commencing his marketing campaign from Kairana, BJP failed to maneuver the voters because the constituency has over 33 per cent Muslims who consolidate in favour of SP.

  • UP polls: 15 MLAs face drubbing at threshold of victory

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Who can higher perceive the importance of each single vote however those that needed to style the defeat regardless of being on the thresh maintain of victory.

    They ended up dropping their seat by a particularly slender margin of even lower than 500 votes.

    In UP, the BJP emerged victorious and have become the one occasion to have repeated a time period after 37 years in state polity. Results present that the race for Lucknow has been gained on tighter margins than what they had been 5 years in the past. The combat was so shut that a minimum of on 15 of 403 seats, the victory-defeat hole was lower than 1000 votes.  Of the 15 seats, a minimum of 11 candidates gained their seats with lower than 500 votes.

    In Uttar Pradesh, the median margin of victory got here all the way down to 18,144 in 2022 as in comparison with 25,759 in 2017. While BJP misplaced six seats with a margin of underneath 1000 votes, Samajwadi Party needed to face drubbing on 9 such seats. In 2017, round eight candidates had gained the seats with a margin underneath 1000 votes, in 2022, the variety of such candidates has doubled.

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    On a majority of seats, the contests was bipolar between the BJP and SP candidates. They fought the battle of lakhs of votes however the margin of defeat or victory shrunk to a couple hundred or a thousand in the long run.

    Dhampur seat in Bijnor witnessed a fierce battle of poll whereby BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rana gained however with a margin as skinny as 203 votes. Here the SP candidate Naeemul Hassan of SP garnered 81,588 votes. On this seat, 834 voters pressed NOTA.

    Similarly,  on the Kursi seat in Barabanki, SP stalwart Beni Prasad Verma’s son Rakesh Verma was not lucky sufficient to sail by means of and he was defeated by BJP Sakendra Pratap Verma by a margin of simply 213 votes. Swami Omvesh of SP defeated his nearest rival Kamlesh Saini of BJP within the Chandpur seat in Bijnor by a margin of 234 votes. While BJP Kamesh Saini bought round 90000 votes however she couldn’t sail by means of. Here 854 voters went with NOTA.

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    Similarly, on round 53 seats, the margin of victory has remained lower than or as much as 5000. On 51 seats, the margin has been over 50,000 votes. Of these 51, whereas the BJP gained 44, six have gone to SP whereas one seat of Mauranipur has been gained by BJP ally Apna Dal (S).

    Among the SP candidates fielded on 347 seats, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSP-Lohia)  chief and Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav registered the most important victory by a margin of 90,979 votes from his conventional Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah.  Shivpal had contested the election on the SP image and bought round 1.5 lakh votes. However, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav too bought round 1.48 lakh votes however the margin of his victory was 67,000.

    On the opposite, two of the BJP candidates—Sunil Kumar Sharma in Sahibabad (Ghaziabad) and Pankaj Singh (Noida) – created information by defeating their respective rivals from SP by document margins. While Sunil Kumar Sharma gained the election in Sahibabad by a margin of two,14,835 votes trouncing SP’s Amarpal Sharma, Pankaj Singh defeated his nearest rival Sunil Chaudhury of SP by a margin of 1,81000 votes securing 70.83 per cent votes.

    List of MLAs who misplaced by lower than 500 votes

    Dhampur: BJP wins; Margin: 203 votes
    Kursi: BJP wins; Margin: 217 votes
    Chandpur : SP wins; Margin: 234 votes
    Nehtaur: BJP wins; Margin : 258
    Ramnagar: SP wins; Margin: 261
    IsauIi: SP wins; Margin: 269 votes
    Bilaspur: BJP wins; Margin: 307 votes
    Nakur: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
    Baraut: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
    Katra: BJP wins: Margin: 357 votes
    Dibiyapur: SP wins; Margin: 473 votes
    Shahganj: NISAHD wins; Margin: 719 votes
    Domariyaganj: SP wins; Margin: 771 votes
    Moradabad Urban: BJP wins; Margin: 782 votes
    Jasrana: SP wins; Margin: 836 votes
     

  • UP polls: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav loses a hard-fought battle

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Traversing by means of totally different phases of age and incomes distinctions of being the youngest parliamentarian at 27 in 2000 and UP’s youngest chief minister at 38 in 2012, Akhilesh Yadav,  Samajwadi Party chief, appears to have lastly come of age regardless of a collection of electoral defeats since 2014.

    At 47, Akhilesh, who led his celebration to one of the crucial essential do-or-die electoral battles of his life, has actually come out of the shadow of his father and SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and has established himself because the undisputed chief of the socialist motion in UP and his celebration as the principle opposition with BSP and Congress standing decimated in UP’s political panorama.

    The outcomes of 2022 may not have led Akhilesh Yadav to the throne of UP however he fought arduous to perform the mission which all the time was thought-about to be a herculean activity. The SP chief exhibited unmatched political maturity to beat the mighty BJP in its personal recreation by cobbling up strategic alliances with smaller caste-based events.

    As SP chief, Akhilesh left no stone unturned to scrub off tag of being a ‘one family party’ and denied tickets to his relations. He tried to self-discipline his partymen to dispose of the bags of hooliganism which his celebration continues to be carrying and it was properly mirrored throughout the polls. He drew mammoth crowd in his rallies reflecting his reputation however did not get the gang transformed into votes.

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    Akhilesh tried to arduous promote the modified method of the Samajwadi Party by projecting it as ‘Nai hawa hai, nai SaPa hai – Badon ka hath, yuva ka saath.’ He reached out to the celebration veterans personally projecting inclusiveness within the celebration.

    Akhilesh even mended the discordant notes within the household by shaking fingers with uncle Shivpal Yadav in December 2021 and making him contest the polls on the SP ticket.

    After tasting the crushing defeat in 2017 adopted by 2019 Lok Sabha elections when his Mahagathbandhan with Mayawati failed, Akhilesh went again to drafting board and drafted the roadmap for the battle of 2022. He replicated the BJP caste calculus and struck strategic tie-ups with smaller caste-based alliances together with Om Prakash Rajbhar’s SBSP, Mahan Dal led by Keshav Dev Maurya, Janwadi Party (Socialist) led by Sanjay Singh Chauhan, Shivpal Yadav’s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), Apna Dal-Kamerawadi led by Union Minister Anupriya Patel’s mom Krishna Patel relatively than going with the mains stream events like Congress and BSP anymore.

    To money in on the farmers’ unrest and strike a Jat-Muslim synergy in western UP, Akhilesh joined fingers with Jayant Chaudhury-led Rashtriya Lok Dal which was additionally searching for the revival after getting decimated in 2014, 2017 and 2019. Akhilesh even inducted huge OBC faces like Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini, who left the BJP in mid-January to transcend the notion of being a celebration of Muslim and Yadavs (M-Y) in 2022 meeting polls.

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    However, the technique to induct a number of massive leaders from the BJP forward of the polls additionally flopped. Swami Prasad Maurya himself misplaced from Fazilnagar and Dharam Singh Saini from Nakur. Neither did the alliances deliver dividends to the SP within the type of non-Yadav OBC votes.  Even the farmers’ protest didn’t hit the ruling celebration’s prospects as a lot as anticipated.

    If BJP pressed into service all its bigwigs within the run-up to the polls – from Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to BJP chief JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and others, the SP had solely Akhilesh to tug off the celebration marketing campaign at every entrance. He addressed 131 rallies.

    The 2022 loss marks Akhilesh’s fourth back-to-back defeat from 2014 onwards. He had received his first election in 2000, a bypoll for the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat. In 2009, he was appointed state president, changing uncle Shivpal.

    In what would be the saving grace for Akhilesh, preventing his first Assembly election, he received by greater than 60,000 votes from Karhal seat in Mainpuri – thought-about an SP bastion with a formidable variety of Muslims and Yadavs – getting nearly double the votes of his nearest BJP rival, SPS Baghel.

  • People buried politics of caste, faith: Yogi Adityanath on BJP’s UP victory

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: People have buried the politics of caste and faith by guaranteeing the victory of BJP and its allies in Uttar Pradesh underneath the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath stated on Thursday.

    Addressing celebration staff on the state headquarters after the ballot outcomes and developments confirmed a transparent BJP majority, he stated the “misleading” marketing campaign run by the Opposition over the previous 2-3 days have been put aside by the individuals who reposed religion within the good governance of the BJP.

    He was apparently taking a dig at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for elevating questions over EVMs.

    Adityanath greeted PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for guaranteeing the return of the BJP for a second consecutive time period in Uttar Pradesh.

    The chief minister was sprayed with gulal (dry color) by state celebration president Swatantra Dev Singh and others to have a good time the celebration’s victory within the elections.