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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.

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.