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Jubilation at UP BJP headquarters, gloom at offices of opposition parties

The excitement at the UP BJP headquarters here was palpable with the party workers dancing to popular tunes and throwing gulal at each other

BJP set for big win in Uttar Pradesh, party alliance leading in 267 seats

The ruling BJP appeared on course to retain power in Uttar Pradesh, with poll trends on Thursday showing the party-led alliance leading in 267 seats as against 127 of its nearest rival Samajwadi Party

UP polls: Adityanath wins Gorakhpur Urban seat with massive margin

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath won Gorakhpur Urban seat with a massive margin of 54,858 votes.His victory comes as the BJP is on course to retain power in Uttar Pradesh. The counting of the votes polled in assembly elections is underway.According to the Election Commission of India, Adityanath, who is contesting the Assembly elections for the first time, received 85,356 while his nearest rival SP candidate Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla got 30,498 votes.Azad Samaj Party chief Chandra Shekhar Azad garnered only 4,501 votes.Adityanath represented the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat until 2017 when he was chosen as the UP Chief Minister after the Bharatiya Janata Party's landslide victory in the state polls. The Gorakhpur Sadar seat had also been a bastion of the BJP, which the party had never lost since 1967 since the days of the Jan Sangh.Meanwhile, according to the latest trends of the Election Commission of India as the counting of the votes is

BJP spreading rumours, will form government in UP: Samajwadi Party

The Samajwadi Party claimed that after the declaration of the final results, it will form next government in the state.

BJP set for big win in Uttar Pradesh, party alliance leading in 269 seats

The ruling BJP seems to be on course to retain power in Uttar Pradesh, with poll trends on Thursday showing the party alliance leading in 269 seats as against 121 of its nearest rival Samajwadi Party

UP elections: New history being created in Uttar Pradesh, says BJP

With the BJP leaving its rivals comfortably behind in states like UP and Uttarakhand in initial rounds of vote counting, its leaders credited PM Modi's governance model for the expected win

EC sends special officers for counting of votes in Varanasi, Meerut

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi has been sent as a special officer to oversee the counting process in Meerut and Bihar's CEO to Varanasi

Change is certain in Uttar Pradesh: Sachin Pilot on assembly polls

Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Wednesday said the results of the assembly elections held in the five states will bring a change and that Congress' performance will be better.

Poll violence drastically down in 2022 compared to 2017 in UP: Police

Uttar Pradesh has registered a sharp decline in the cases of poll violence during the just-concluded assembly elections compared to the one held in 2017, police said on Tuesday.

Exit polls hand UP to BJP, Punjab to AAP; but are the markets bothered?

The final outcome of UP will be keenly watched, analysts said, as it will pave the way how Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) approaches and prepares for the general elections in 2024

Top headlines: BJP set to retain UP, falling rupee and exports, and more

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Exit polls 2022: BJP set to retain Uttar Pradesh; AAP may win Punjab

The BJP is set to win the most seats in Manipur, say exit polls

BJP to repeat its 2017 show in Uttar Pradesh: Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

Sharma said that in the last five years, the size of the economy of Uttar Pradesh increased and the government gave government jobs to 4.5 lakh youths

UP Polls: Surveys don't matter, we'll get over 300 seats, says Akhilesh

He claimed that the SP-led alliance will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh with over 300 seats.

Priyanka in Jaipur, hints post poll alliance with SP in Uttar Pradesh

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was in Jaipur on Monday where she answered various queries of the media.

UP Assembly elections: 54.18% voter turnout recorded till 5 pm

Over 54 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 5 pm in the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday.

Rising prices threaten PM Modi's hold on India's most crucial state

The Uttar Pradesh vote will signal whether Modi's grip on power is slipping ahead of the next national election in 2024

UP Assembly elections: 46.40% voter turnout till 3 pm in seventh phase

An average voter turnout of 46.40 per cent was recorded in the seventh and the final phase of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on Monday, according to the Election Commission of India.

UP Assembly elections: 21.55% polling recorded in first 4 hours of voting

Over 21 per cent of voters exercised their right in the first four hours of polling for the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday

Why even a UP win won't stem the current regime's slide

Given the magnitude of unemployment, it will be difficult to resolve regardless of whoever becomes chief minister of UP