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Yogi meets PM Modi, Vice Prez Naidu in first visit to Delhi after UP polls

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, in his first visit to national capital after the party notched up a comprehensive victory in the assembly polls

Yogi Adityanath arrives to PM's residence for meeting on UP cabinet

The two are likely to discuss a possible cabinet reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Polls: Survey shows 8% Muslims voted for BJP

Despite general perception that Muslims were voting against it, BJP has succeeded in getting at least eight per cent Muslim votes in a bipolar and highly polarised Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh

Adityanath to discuss govt formation with BJP leadership in Delhi today

Ahead of the government formation after the poll verdict, UP CM Yogi Adityanath will visit the national capital today to hold consultations with the top leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Uttar Pradesh: Swearing-in of new BJP govt likely to take place after Holi

Days after the BJP retained power for the second consecutive term in Uttar Pradesh, the swearing-in ceremony, sources said, of the new government is likely to take place after Holi.

AAP to hold victory processions across UP tomorrow to celebrate Punjab win

The Aam Aadmi Party will hold victory processions across Uttar Pradesh on March 12 to celebrate its resounding victory in the Punjab Assembly polls, party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said

Akhilesh thanks people after massive increase in seats, vote share in UP

Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav on Friday expressed gratitude to the people for building faith in the party which led to the increase in the number of their seats and vote share.

Yogi Adityanath's 'bulldozer' could not dislodge these 'Robinhoods'

Five out of eight mafias in the fray have managed to win elections.

Voters send 36 Muslim candidates to 18th UP Assembly, 2 more than earlier

Voters have sent 36 Muslim candidates to the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly, two more than the previous Assembly.

Challenges ahead for new govts in UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur

The new governments in Goa, Manipur, and Uttarakhand will have to create jobs for their people to bring down the unemployment rate to the national average.

BSP ends UP Assembly polls 2022 with 1 seat, and about 13% vote share

The Bahujan Samaj Party managed to win only one of the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, far from party president Mayawati's pre-poll claims that they would spring a surprise. However, the BSP has managed to secure the third-highest vote share by bagging 12.9 per cent of the total votes polled in the state elections, according to the Election Commission figures. The assembly elections were swept by the BJP for a straight second term after it got the highest 41.3 per cent vote share, followed by the Samajwadi Party with 32 per cent votes, according to the Election Commission. In the 2017 assembly polls, the BSP had contested all 403 seats and won only 19 of them while its deposit was forfeited on 81 seats. The party had polled over 22 per cent of the total votes cast in 2017. The BSP, a national party fighting all constituencies in the state like it did in 2017, won the Rasara seat in Ballia district where its sitting MLA Umashankar Singh got 87,887 (or 43.82 per cent) of the tot

Elections 2022: Economic challenges for new governments in UP and Punjab

Voters in five states threw a surprise by giving a clear verdict in assembly elections 2022. Both UP and Punjab -- the largest states of the lot -- have their own set of economic challenges to be deal

Election results 2022: 10 Uttar Pradesh ministers fail to win their seats

According to the Election Commission website, deputy chief minister and BJP candidate from Sirathu Keshav Prasad Maurya lost to the Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel by 7,337 votes.

Election results show a tighter race in Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Manipur

Indian National Congress' vote share declined in all states except Uttarakhand.

'Bulldozing' Opposition charge, BJP rides the pro-incumbency wave

The saffron party's Uttar Pradesh (UP) headquarters in the heart of Lucknow witnessed quintessential Holi scenes

37-yr jinx broken, Yogi first sitting UP CM to return to power since 1985

The victory places Adit­y­a­nath, a favourite of the Rash­triya Swayam­sevak Sangh (RSS) desp­ite his independent streak, as a contender for the BJP's national leadership in the not-too-distant futur

Challenges ahead for new govts in UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur

The incoming govts will have to work on creating more job opportunities to bring these states' unemployment rates close to the national average, besides containing inflation and meeting poll promises

UP Assembly polls: BJP increases vote share despite losing over 50 seats

All set to form a majority government for the second time in a row in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has managed to increase its vote share despite a loss of over 50 seats from its tally of 2017.

UP result heralds new political culture under PM Modi: Jitendra Singh

Jitendra Singh Thursday said that UP Assembly election result heralds a new political culture under Prime Minister Narendra Modi which is in tune with the aspirational democracy of a new India.

After 3 decades of influencing UP politics, BSP relegated to margins

Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party has been relegated to the margins with the party set to witness its poorest performance ever in assembly polls.