New Delhi: Winning 33 of the total 36 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has registered a thumping victory in the Legislative Council elections. For the unversed, the ruling BJP has already unanimously won nine of the 36 council seats. The seats where BJP has won unopposed are—Budaun, Hardoi, Kheri, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Banda-Hamirpur, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, and Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri. Two MLCs were elected unopposed from Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri local authorities’ constituency, while from the rest of the constituencies, one MLC each was elected unopposed. For the unversed, the BJP had 35 MLCs in the 100-member Council and the nine seats have now taken its tally to 44. The party is only seven short of the majority. The Samajwadi Party has 17 members while the BSP has four and the Congress and BJP allies Apna Dal(S) and Nishad Party have one member each. Two members belong to the teachers’ group (non-political) and two are Independent.
आज उत्तर प्रदेश के स्थानीय प्राधिकारी विधान परिषद चुनावों में भाजपा की प्रचण्ड विजय ने पुनः स्पष्ट कर दिया है कि आदरणीय प्रधानमंत्री जी के कुशल मार्गदर्शन एवं नेतृत्व में प्रदेश की जनता राष्ट्रवाद, विकास एवं सुशासन के साथ है।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) April 12, 2022
10:34 AM: BJP candidates leading on 7 seats
10:20 AM: SP candidate Dr. Kafeel Khan trailing from the Deoria-Kushinagar legislative council seat
09:59 AM: BJP candidate Avinash Chauhan leading from Kanpur-Fatehpur.
09: 58 AM: Independent candidate Annapurna Singh leading from Varanasi.
09:55 AM: BJP’s Ravi Shankar Singh alias Pappu leading from Ballia.
09:55 am: BJP candidate is also leading from the Etawah-Farrukhabad seat.
09:50 am: Angad Kumar Singh of the BJP is leading from the Barabanki seat.
09:40 am: BJP candidate Vishal Singh is leading from Ghazipur.
09:30 am: SP’s Sunil Singh Sajan is leading from the Lucknow-Unnao seat.
09:25 am: BJP candidate is leading from Allahabad- Kaushambi seat.
09:20 am: BJP is leading in 12 seats of MLC.
09: 15 am: Akshay Pratap is leading from Pratapgarh.
09:10 am: Independent candidate Annapurna Singh is leading from Varanasi while BJP’s Sudama Patel is trailing.
09:08 am: BJP candidate Avinash Chauhan is leading from Kanpur-Fatehpur.
09:05 am: BJP eyes majority in Upper House | “If the BJP gets a majority in both Houses, passing of bills will be easy and the government will further cement its position in the state legislature,” said a senior BJP functionary.
09:00 am: Nine BJP candidates who won unopposed
08:20 AM: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who was among those who turned up early to exercise their franchise, had told reporters in Gorakhpur on April 9, In the recent assembly elections, the BJP (like in 2017) won more than two-thirds of the seats and formed a strong government. After four decades, a situation has come when a ruling party will be able to bag a huge mandate in the Legislative Council too.
08:00 AM: During the UP MLC polls, Rae Bareli had the highest turnout of 99.35 percent. Apart from this, 96.87 in Saharanpur, 96.67 in Sambhal, 98.39 in Bareilly, 99.26 in Amroha, 99.16 in Barabanki, 98.94 in Jhansi-Lalitpur-Jalaun, 98.31 in Kushinagar, 99.2 in Azamgarh-Mau, 98.28 in Gonda, 99.16 in Gaonjipur. 98.88, 96.81 in Kannauj, 98.77 in Sultanpur-Amethi, 96.50 in Gorakhpur-Maharajganj, 96.69 in Saharanpur, 98.28 in Jaunpur, 98.52 in Varanasi, 98.06 in Agra-Firozabad, 97.38 in Shahjahanpur, 96,14.59 in Bijnor, 95 in Rampur, 98.11 in Deoria, 99.16 in Unnao and 96.71 per cent votes were cast in Siddharthnagar seat.
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