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Tuesday March 06, 2012 10:36:39 PM, ummid.com & Agencies

Uttar Pradesh: Final Results

Party

Leads

Wins

Total

SP

0 224 224

BSP

1 79 80

BJP

0 47

47

Congress+

0 38

38

Others

0 14

14

       

Majority

202

Total

403/403

Lucknow: Riding an anti-incumbency wave, the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday stormed to power in Uttar Pradesh dislodging Mayawati.

The SP announced that party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav would be the Chief Minister.

The Mulayam Singh-led SP knocked out the Bahujan Samaj Party by winning 224 seats and leading in the 403-member House. The ruling party was reduced to 80 seats from the 206 it had in the outgoing House. The SP had won 97 seats in the 2007 elections.

The BJP meanwhile barely managed to repeat its 2007 performance. It has won 47 seats. It had won 51 seats in 2007 elections.

Equally dismal was the performance of Congress, which sought to make big strides with spirited campaign by Rahul Gandhi, winning only 28 seats. The party had won 22 seats in the last elections. Congress, which tied up with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), trailed a sorry fourth with a combined tally of 38 seats.


As pundits and voters alike tried to make sense of the scenario, all were agreed that this electoral battle had left the Congress badly bruised and the famed Gandhi charisma in serious question. In a major setback, the Congress lost all the seats in Rae Bareli, represented in the Lok Sabha by party president Sonia Gandhi.

Four of the seats in Rae Bareli were bagged by the Samajwadi Party while the fifth went to the Peace Party, the Election Commission sources said.

In the five-seat Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, represented by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the Congress could win three seats, while SP took two.

 

Also, in a personal setback to Union Minister Salman Khurshid whose comments on Muslim reservation and Batla House encouter created controversies, Louis Khurshid, his wife, lost from the Farukkhabad assembly seat. 

 

 

 

 

 


 



 



 

 

 

 

 

 

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Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal inspecting the damaged gate number 16 at the Farakka Barrage, Murshidabad district, West Bengal on March 03, 2012. State Minister of Irrigation & Waterways, Micro & Small Scale Enterprises & Textiles, Government of West Bengal Dr. Manas Ranjan Bhunia and State Minister of Development & Planning and Power, Government of West Bengal Manish Gupta are also seen.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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