IPA Newspack
  • Home
  • now
  • politics
  • business
  • markets

IPA /

Happening Now

Happening Now

BJP sweeps UP Council but loses key Varanasi seat

The BJP is heading for a big win in biennial elections to the Uttar Pradesh legislative council or upper house, weeks after its record victory in state elections, but lost the key Varanasi seat.

Votes are being counted for 36 of 100 seats in the Uttar Pradesh legislative council. The BJP is ahead in more than 30 seats and is all set to win a majority in the upper house. It had already won nine seats unopposed.

For the first time in decades, the party will have a majority in both houses of the UP assembly.

In Varanasi, reports say that Annapurna Singh, the wife of local strongman Brijesh Singh has won the seat by a massive margin with the BJP candidate coming second.

In the 2016 election on this seat, Brijesh Singh had won as an independent but the BJP more or less gave him a walkover by not putting up a candidate. In this election, the BJP decided to contest and made the polls in the eastern UP city a prestige battle

But apart from the loss in Varanasi, it’s a win-win situation for the BJP, which just won a big majority in the state election with Yogi Adityanath becoming Chief Minister for the second time. Once results are formally declared, the party will enjoy a majority in both houses of the Uttar Pradesh legislature with over 60 seats

The Samajwadi Party has not managed to win a single seat in the election, among its candidates were Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Khan, who was jailed earlier for his alleged role in the Gorakhpur oxygen deaths in 2017. Voters in these elections are MPs. MLAs, urban corporators and village level representatives like Pradhans. This is bad news for the party and its chief Akhilesh Yadav, right after the assembly election loss where the Samajwadi Party won a respectable 111 seats but could not dethrone the BJP that once again won a big majority

Chief Minister Adityanath, an MLC in the previous govt and now an MLA, also cast his vote for these elections from his home turf Gorakhpur. The BJP is winning the seat. For Mr Adityanath, the MLC elections victory will mean a reassertion of his own standing within the party, with favourable electoral results just a month after the big state election win
With inputs from NDTV

IPA Special

U.S. Sponsored IPEF Is A Counter To Just Not China But To BRICS Also

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Coming Biennial Elections For 57 Rajya Sabha Seats Significant

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

TRS Supremo K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s Moves On Presidential Poll Make Sense

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Congress Unit In Uttar Pradesh Starts Implementing Udaipur Decisions

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Bangladesh Feeling Impact Of Ukraine War On Its Exchange Rate

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Narendra Modi Is Now Following U.S. President Joe Biden In Most Global Issues

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Places Of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 Is Binding

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Never-Ending Plans To Expand NATO In Europe Threaten World Peace

May 24, 2022
Happening Now

Quad a force for good, Modi tells Tokyo summit

May 24, 2022
Happening Now

TN minister challenges Nirmala Sitharaman on fuel tax cuts

May 24, 2022
Happening Now

Crucial parleys ahead of Rajya Sabha, presidential polls

May 24, 2022
Happening Now

Air India asks staff to vacate govt housing colonies

May 24, 2022
Happening Now

Heavy rain, thunderstorm disrupt flights at Delhi airport

May 24, 2022
Happening Now

Vinai Kumar Saxena to replace Baijal as Delhi Lt Guv

May 24, 2022
IPA Special

Traders Behind Soaring Wheat Prices In India

May 23, 2022
IPA Special

Navjot Sidhu Sentence Speaks Poorly Of The Pace Of Judicial Process

May 23, 2022
IPA Special

Gyanvapi Masjid/Mandir Issue Is More Complex And Volatile Than Ayodhya

May 23, 2022
IPA Special

Europe Is At Crossroads Between Neoliberalism And Justice

May 23, 2022
Business

M’rashtra, Kerala, R’sthan cut fuel VAT after central cut

May 23, 2022
Happening Now

Saudi Arabia bans travel to India, other countries over covid

May 23, 2022

An appeal

The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.
Click here to learn more

Share

Reply

  • 0
More on IPA

Quad a force for good, Modi tells Tokyo summit

May 24, 2022 11:05 am | IPA Webdesk

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia attended the second in-person meeting of Quad leaders in Tokyo today. In...

Happening Now

TN minister challenges Nirmala Sitharaman on fuel tax cuts

May 24, 2022 7:47 am | IPA Webdesk

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan pulled no punches as he took on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday for “exhorting” states to cut...

Happening Now

Crucial parleys ahead of Rajya Sabha, presidential polls

May 24, 2022 7:42 am | IPA Webdesk

Top BJP leaders, including Amit Shah and JP Nadda, held a four-hour meeting on the Rajya Sabha election and the presidential election just two months...

Happening Now

Air India asks staff to vacate govt housing colonies

May 24, 2022 7:38 am | IPA Webdesk

Tata Group-owned Air India has asked its staff to vacate the government-owned housing colonies by July 26, according to an official document. The Tata Group...

Happening Now

Quad a force for good, Modi tells Tokyo summit

in Happening Now
May 24, 2022   ·  

TN minister challenges Nirmala Sitharaman on fuel tax cuts

in Happening Now
May 24, 2022   ·  

Crucial parleys ahead of Rajya Sabha, presidential polls

in Happening Now
May 24, 2022   ·  
Follow us on
Up Next: Uma Bharti’s ultimatum to unlock Raisen Fort temple
©2020 -2021 India Press Agency, All Rights Reserved
Newspack by India Press Agency
Posting....
logo
  • Home
  • now
  • politics
  • business
  • markets