Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and supporters have started with the celebrations in Lucknow as trends favour the party. If the early leads sustain, the BJP may be on the way to retaining power in the state.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading on 250 out of 403 seats at 10.30 pm and top party leaders were expected to hold a press conference later in the day.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers dance and celebrate with saffron-coloured gulal.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
The Samajwadi Party on Thursday said initial trends in Uttar Pradesh were "not authentic" and asked its workers to stay put at local assembly election offices till the counting of votes ends.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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"These trends are not authentic, a perception is being made that BJP is winning so that the morale of the workers can be broken and results manipulated dishonestly after 3 PM. It is an appeal to the workers to stay put at the spot till the last results!” the Samajwadi Party's media cell tweeted in Hindi.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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Tribals and farmers affected by the Ken-Betwa river-linking project stage a symbolic Chita Andolan (pyre protests), Jal Satyagraha and hanging satyagraha by placing nooses around their necks, over their demands of better compensation and rehabilitation, in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh. The 15-day protest ended after police removed them from site.
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Parallelly, the crackdown on protesters to maintain law and order situation in the sensitive areas of Central Delhi continued with lathi charge, tear gas firing etc.
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Television evangilist Joni Lamb sings a praise song during 'Celebration', a show that she and her husband Marcus host on the Daystar Network, on July 30, 2001.
