New Delhi: As the trends put the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the third spot in the state, the party on Tuesday conceded that it did not perform as expected in the 2012 Uttar Assembly Election. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, senior party leader Sushma Swaraj said that the regional parties such as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) had emerged strongly in Uttar Pradesh. When asked...
05:19 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost in Ayodhya Assembly constituency for the first time since the Babri Masjid was demolished on Demcember 6, 1992. BJP candidate Lallu Singh lost to Samajwadi Party's Tej Narayan Pandey alias Pawan Pandey in the results declared on Tuesday. Singh had been winning the seat since 1991 state elections. Pandey won Ayodhya by a margin of 5,405 votes. While Pandey got 55,262 votes,...
05:15 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: A beaming and elated Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav put law and order as the top priority for the new government to be formed by his party in Uttar Pradesh while thanking voters from all castes and communities for giving his party a resounding victory. Addressing a press conference in Lucknow after leading his party to power, Akhilesh said that the new government under Mulayam Singh Yadav will work...
04:51 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: The expensive giant statues of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati and party symbol elephant in Uttar Pradesh will remain safe with Samajwadi Party's star campaigner Akhilesh Yadav saying on Tuesday that they would not be pulled down after the change of guard in the state. Yadav, who powered Samajwadi's campaign to help his father and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to regain power, had said in the midst...
04:19 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has conceded defeat in Uttar Pradesh and has taken the responsibility for the poor show of the party. He said, "I was leading and we lost. It is my responsibility." The Congress leader, who had headed the Congress campaign in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, said that the results were a big lesson for him, adding, "I have promised villagers that I...
04:07 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati may be on her way out of 'pancham tal' " Chief Minister's Office in the Secretariat building " but she has the distinction of being the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh to have completed a full five-year term in the post. The Dalit czarina, whose social engineering catapulted her to simple majority of 206 in the 403-member state assembly in the 2007 elections,...
03:42 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that the dismal showing by the Congress in Uttar Pradesh was "deeply disappointing". As it became clear that the Congress had not faired well in the elections, Khurshid said the party had hoped to perform better in Uttar Pradesh with Rahul Gandhi leading the charge. "The results are deeply disappointing," Khurshid told a television news channel. "But we don't have...
03:34 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is set to come to power in Uttar Pradesh, the party workers and supporters celebrate their performance in the Assembly elections 2012. ...
03:14 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Etawah: The traditional Yadav bastions of Mainpuri, Etawah and Firozabad celebrated wildly on Tuesday as the Samajwadi Party (SP) seemed set to return to power in Uttar Pradesh. Groups of party workers took to the streets in Shikohabad with party flags. The mood turned festive, with many smearing one another with Holi colours " two days before the festival. In Firozabad, home to India's glass and bangle industry, a bulk...
02:35 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the 'dismal performance' of Congress in the assembly polls as the "second consecutive defeat" of Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said the Congress had made the elections a prestige issue. "Congress and the media had created a big hype about Rahul Gandhi. Congress had made it a prestige issue. These results show that this is the second consecutive defeat...
02:19 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress's poor show in the five state elections have clearly taken the sheen off party General Secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi and stunned its leaders, who had hoped for a much better result. In Uttar Pradesh, despite a high-voltage campaign by Rahul Gandhi, the Congress has failed to notch up an impressive score and was trailing in the fourth spot behind the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan...
02:14 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said that the party will form the government and said son Akhilesh led to the victory. ...
02:12 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Refusing to call the Uttar Pradesh result a debacle, the Congress on Tuesday said its anti-Mayawati campaign succeeded but it could not capitalise on the momentum built by party icon Rahul Gandhi due to lack of infrastructure. "The Congress was the first to start the oust Mayawati campaign, but we could not take the benefit due to lack of party infrastructure... The Samajwadi Party was able to do...
02:05 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Tuesday backed Rahul Gandhi while shielding him from the criticism that his aggressive campaign failed to result in major gains for the party in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Rita Bahuguna Joshi blamed the party organsitaion and the candidates for the party's poor show in the state where Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is all set to regain power, routing the Bahujan ...
01:38 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party has crossed the half-way mark in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections and looks all set to form the next government in the state. While the party has already won 168 seats, it is leading in 54 other seats, taking the total number to 222 as per the tally at around 5.40 pm. Confident of the victory, partys star campaigner Akhilesh Yadav has thanked the people...
01:38 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Samajwadi Party leader Kamal Farooqui said that the party will form the government on its own in Uttar Pradesh as their numbers are increasing. ...
12:54 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: As the race to Lucknow heats up with the trends showing the Samajwadi Party as the single largest party, Congress leader P L Punia has suggested that the party may extend support to the former if needed. Though Punia said that a decision in this regard would be taken by party president Sonia Gandhi, he said that the party must be flexible. "This is not a decision that I...
12:23 PM, Mar 06, 2012
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said that the entire credit for BJP's good show goes to party President Nitin Gadkari. ...
11:23 AM, Mar 06, 2012
BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that the party will sit in Opposition in Uttar Pradesh and not support anyone. ...
11:10 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: With the party relegated to the fourth position in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Tuesday accepted the verdict of the people which was "against expectations". Party spokesman Rashid Alvi said "whatever verdict has been given by the people, we have accepted...It was against our expectations and we will find out where we have gone wrong". He sidestepped questions on the party's future course of action in the state,...
10:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012
