Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife, Dimple Yadav, has been elected unopposed from Kannauj as noone stood against her from the parliamentary constituency which fell vacant after Akhilesh Yadav became the CM of UP.
Incumbent CM Mayawati in her first media address after the polls, defends her governance in the state of Uttar Pradesh. UP was in a bad shape and it received no help from the Centre claims the queen bee of BSP.
Congress decides to meet and discuss its dismal performance in the Assembly polls. Digvijaya Singh might be targeted as he was responsible for the UP elections this year.
Rahul Gandhi campaigned extensively in UP, but failed to garner votes; Akhilesh Yadav, on the other hand, took the Samajwadi Party to a landslide victory.
Now that the mandate of the people is clearly in Samajwadi Party's favour, Akhilesh Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav will now have to get down to work to eliminate the 'goonda' elements from the party's cadre.
Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti feels that Samajwadi Party getting the maximum seats in Uttar Pradesh is a cause of worry and if it forms the government, crime will rise in the state.
It has been a rude awakening for the Congress, with big names of the party, such as Louise Khurshid, Rakesh Verma, Amita Singh, Supriya Aron, and the like, losing the elections.
It was sweet revenge for Mulayam Singh Yadav five years after Mayawati famously said 'why kill a dead man' after the Samajwadi supremo was ousted in 2007.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari feels that the results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections fell below its expectations, even as the party geared itself to form governments in three other states.
Congress leaders Rita Bahuguna and Sriprakash Jaiswal seek to absolve Rahul Gandhi of any responsibility for Party's poor show in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elecitons.
In view of the rout that the Congress has faced in the Assembly elections in almost all the states, the party will need to re-think its strategy for the national elections.
The Samajwadi Party cadre begins celebrations as the leading trend shows the party emerging as the single largest party in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
As counting of votes progresses, the Samajwadi Party is surging ahead in Uttar Pradesh, and expected to form the next government, with the help of other parties.
With the SP leading in Amethi, a traditional stronghold of Congress, and SAD leading with 25 seats in Punjab, Congress seems to be in trouble across all states.
As the UP Assembly elections results emerge, the Congress has taken a back seat while the Samajwadi Party rise as the single largest outfit with the BJP trailing behind.
The assembly election in Uttar Pradesh is considered a mini general election, and all eyes are on the state as the counting is set to begin in a while.
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Television actress Sushmita Mukherjee was in Bundelkhand to support her husband, Raja Bundela, who is contesting elections from the Jhansi constituency.
The BJP MP from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath, has said that UP will witness another election within a year as no single party would be able to form the government.
Addressing the rally from Nehru's constituency in UP, Rahul Gandhi criticizes BSP govt for underdevelopment, lax governance and dismal law & order in the state.