With the benefit of hindsight, it can now be safely said that these spikes in BJP’s vote shares capture the contribution of the Narendra Modi wave to the party’s historic victory. read more

The key issues: Farm issues, reservations, Pulwama terror attack, law-and-order situation, issues related to minorities and development projects. read more

Heading a BJP government in the state (the saffron party won a near two-thirds majority in the 2017 state polls), Adityanath was seen as having failed to delivered his pocket borough of Gorakhpur to the party. read more

The arithmetic did not add up on Thursday as the BJP comfortably defeated the SP-BSP-RLD alliance across all regions of the state, including in Gorakhpur, Phulpur and Kairana. read more

BJP’s win raises the question of whether India is moving into a post-Mandal phase of politics read more

The BJP won 71 seats in Uttar Pradesh in 2014. In 2019, it won 13 and was leading on 49 seats at the time of filing this report. read more

The story of Modi’s rise and rise cannot be told without chronicling the abject failure of the Congress and the complacency of its leadership. Even in the three states it won in the December assembly elections, the party was unable to consolidate its... read more

Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to Parliament at 80, went to polls in all the seven phases of the Lok Sabha election 2019. read more

A political fighter to the core, Amit Shah had requested the BJP election committee to allow him to fight from Amethi against Rahul Gandhi. read more

With the Lok Sabha election trends showing an overwhelming majority for the BJP, the saffron party’s supporters burst firecrackers and blew conch to express their happiness. read more

The BJP and ally Apna Dal won an unprecedented 73 seats in 2014 and the Congress two, the Samajwadi Party five in the politically-crucial state. read more

After having swept the state in 2014, the BJP faces its strongest challenge in Uttar Pradesh with a formidable opposition alliance. read more

Singh said the BJP had asked the SBSP chief Omprakash Rajbhar to contest national elections on its symbol from Ghosi. read more

SP national general secretary Mewa Lal Gautam said on Wednesday that Upadhyay had been suspended because he opposed BSP candidates selected to contest the Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Aligarh seats. read more

UP Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 Live Updates: Lok Sabha Elections result will be declared today. Fate of UP leaders including PM Narendra Modi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and others will be decided today. read more