Up Phulpur Bypolls

The Samajwadi Party has officially confirmed the end of its alliance with an eastern UP party whose giant killing act on the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2018 bypolls cemented Akhilesh Yadav's alliance or "gathbandhan" with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

The Congress isn't going to field candidates for the Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh later this month, a gesture that the party says it hopes would improve the chances of the opposition's grand alliance to trump the BJP in these two seats.

BJP chief Amit Shah today acknowledged his party lost the crucial Lok Sabha bypolls in Uttar Pradesh because of the electoral understanding between the SP and the BSP.

As the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh celebrates a year today, an alliance partner has given it a poor assessment and has gone public with his view that there are "grave problems". Om Prakash Rajbhar, a minister in the UP cabinet, also warns that the ruling BJP "will lose elections" if the government doesn't shape up.

The BJP's defeat in the recent Lok Sabha by-elections in Gorakhpur and Phulpur cannot be termed a "referendum" on the policies and programmes of the party's governments at the Centre or in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today.

The recent bypoll defeats in Uttar Pradesh made the BJP realise that "even this can happen", Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today, adding that there won't be a repeat of such an election result.

After profusely thanking Mayawati for her party's support in the Uttar Pradesh by-elections, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav drove on Wednesday to the BSP leader's residence in Lucknow and expressed his gratitude to her.

A day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) defeated BJP in two important constituencies of Uttar Pradesh -Gorakhpur and Phulpur - SP chief Akhilesh Yadav today said that if the electronic voting machines (EVMs) had worked without a glitch, the victory margins of his party's candidates in the UP by-elections would have been higher.

In a staggering defeat, BJP lost the Uttar Pradesh bypolls to Samajwadi Party, backed by the BSP, on Wednesday. The ruling party lost two key parliament seats it held in uttar Pradesh - Phulpur, Gorakhpur by over 59,000 and 21,000 votes respectively. Chief Minister and five-time lawmaker from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath acknowledged it was "overconf...

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Ramgopal Yadav on Wednesday refused to comment on the possibility of an alliance with the BSP for the next Lok Sabha elections in 2019, saying "just wait and watch".

The beginning of the end had started, tweeted Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee today, soon after the reports of the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar bypoll results started coming in.

"People have united against the BJP, responded to their misgovernance," Akhilesh Yadav said at a press conference after Samajwadi Party's candidates won Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha bypolls

Keshav Prasad Maurya, whose parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh went to the Samajwadi Party in a staggering upset for the ruling BJP on Wednesday, conceded that his party was ambushed by bitter rivals Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati joining forces in an unusual experiment ahead of the 2019 national election.

Gorakhpur, the Uttar Pradesh parliament seat that Yogi Adityanath represented as a BJP lawmaker for two decades before vacating it last year to take over as Chief Minister, has chosen the Samajwadi Party this time. The Samajwadi Party, backed in a rare arrangement by Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, has also won the by-election in Phulpur, the seat ...

The Samajwadi Party has officially confirmed the end of its alliance with an eastern UP party whose giant killing act on the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2018 bypolls cemented Akhilesh Yadav's alliance or "gathbandhan" with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

The Congress isn't going to field candidates for the Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh later this month, a gesture that the party says it hopes would improve the chances of the opposition's grand alliance to trump the BJP in these two seats.

BJP chief Amit Shah today acknowledged his party lost the crucial Lok Sabha bypolls in Uttar Pradesh because of the electoral understanding between the SP and the BSP.

As the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh celebrates a year today, an alliance partner has given it a poor assessment and has gone public with his view that there are "grave problems". Om Prakash Rajbhar, a minister in the UP cabinet, also warns that the ruling BJP "will lose elections" if the government doesn't shape up.

The BJP's defeat in the recent Lok Sabha by-elections in Gorakhpur and Phulpur cannot be termed a "referendum" on the policies and programmes of the party's governments at the Centre or in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today.

The recent bypoll defeats in Uttar Pradesh made the BJP realise that "even this can happen", Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today, adding that there won't be a repeat of such an election result.

After profusely thanking Mayawati for her party's support in the Uttar Pradesh by-elections, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav drove on Wednesday to the BSP leader's residence in Lucknow and expressed his gratitude to her.

A day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) defeated BJP in two important constituencies of Uttar Pradesh -Gorakhpur and Phulpur - SP chief Akhilesh Yadav today said that if the electronic voting machines (EVMs) had worked without a glitch, the victory margins of his party's candidates in the UP by-elections would have been higher.

In a staggering defeat, BJP lost the Uttar Pradesh bypolls to Samajwadi Party, backed by the BSP, on Wednesday. The ruling party lost two key parliament seats it held in uttar Pradesh - Phulpur, Gorakhpur by over 59,000 and 21,000 votes respectively. Chief Minister and five-time lawmaker from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath acknowledged it was "overconf...

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Ramgopal Yadav on Wednesday refused to comment on the possibility of an alliance with the BSP for the next Lok Sabha elections in 2019, saying "just wait and watch".

The beginning of the end had started, tweeted Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee today, soon after the reports of the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar bypoll results started coming in.

"People have united against the BJP, responded to their misgovernance," Akhilesh Yadav said at a press conference after Samajwadi Party's candidates won Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha bypolls

Keshav Prasad Maurya, whose parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh went to the Samajwadi Party in a staggering upset for the ruling BJP on Wednesday, conceded that his party was ambushed by bitter rivals Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati joining forces in an unusual experiment ahead of the 2019 national election.

Gorakhpur, the Uttar Pradesh parliament seat that Yogi Adityanath represented as a BJP lawmaker for two decades before vacating it last year to take over as Chief Minister, has chosen the Samajwadi Party this time. The Samajwadi Party, backed in a rare arrangement by Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, has also won the by-election in Phulpur, the seat ...