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AAP juggernaut flattens SAD patriarch Prakash Singh Badal, family

SAD was testing the waters after severing its ties with the BJP with which it had joined hands in 1997 during the state polls and remained its oldest ally for 23 years

Punjab election result LIVE: AAP wins 92 seats; Bhagwant Singh set to be CM

Punjab election result 2022 LIVE updates: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday emerged victorious in the Punjab Assembly Elections 2022. Bhagwant Mann will be the chief minister.

Mayawati: Dalit leader, four-time chief minister fails UP test

In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, her critics accused Mayawati of missing from the campaign scene, a charge she repeatedly denied

People buried politics of caste, religion: Yogi Adityanath on BJP's victory

Adityanath greeted PM Modi, union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for ensuring the return of the BJP for a second consecutive term in Uttar Pradesh

Punjab polls: AAP greenhorn, eye surgeon make Channi bite the dust

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was defeated by AAP's first-timer and an eye surgeon from Bhadaur and Chamkaur Sahib seats, respectively.

Cong will continue to fulfil duty as combative opposition in UP: Priyanka

Congress general secretary in-charge of the state Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said party workers and leaders worked hard but failed to convert that into votes

UP result heralds new political culture under PM Modi: Jitendra Singh

Jitendra Singh Thursday said that UP Assembly election result heralds a new political culture under Prime Minister Narendra Modi which is in tune with the aspirational democracy of a new India.

UP polls: Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM gets under 5,000 votes throughout state

The vote share of the Asaddudin Owaisi-led party was just around 0.43 per cent of the total votes polled across the 403 assembly seats in the state, the Election Commission website showed

Dhami thanks people for BJP's win in U'khand, promises Uniform Civil Code

With the BJP appearing to retain power in Uttarakhand, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, who lost his own seat, thanked the people of the state and reiterated his promise of implementing Uniform Civil Code.

More votes for NOTA than Aam Aadmi Party in UP assembly polls

The party had a vote share of 0.34 per cent, even less than NOTA (none of the above) option, which polled 0.69 per cent of the total votes counted till 5.45 pm, the EC data showed

Opposition vote-split helped BJP defeat Congress in Goa: Chidambaram

Chidambaram on Thursday said that while the people of Goa wanted change, their votes were split amongst the opposition parties.

Pushkar Dhami played like Dhoni but gave away own wicket cheaply: Rajnath

Dhami was plucked out of obscurity by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership last July to be made the Uttarakhand chief minister, with just months to go before the party faced the assembly elections

Uttar Pradesh Elections: BJP trio wins Noida, Dadri, Jewar seats again

BJP MLAs from Noida, Dadri and Jewar in Gautam Buddh Nagar district Thursday emerged victorious from their respective seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022, according to official results.

Punjab polls: Amarinder fails big time, so does party that 'humiliated' him

Amarinder Singh failed spectacularly in these assembly elections his new party failed to open its account, his ally BJP fell flat and he failed to even win his own constituency.

BJP will take independent parties along to form Goa govt: Fadnavis

Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday reiterated that his party will take independents and regional parties along to form the next government in Goa.

After 3 decades of influencing UP politics, BSP relegated to margins

Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party has been relegated to the margins with the party set to witness its poorest performance ever in assembly polls.

Punjab polls: Sukhbir Badal defeated from Jalalabad seat by AAP rival

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal lost to AAP's Jagdeep Kamboj from Jalalabad seat in Punjab's Fazilka district, according to poll results declared on Thursday.

Charanjit Channi: Star for 111 days, Dalit leader back to humdrum politics

The Congress fielded Channi from two seats -- Chamkaur Sahib in Rupnagar and Bhadaur in Barnala, a move which showed how much the Congress was banking on him

BJP's win in UP due to communalism, control of media, money power: CPI(M)

The CPI(M) on Thursday said the BJP's emphatic victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls is due to communal polarisation, control of sections of media and money power.

BJP strength in Manipur shows faith in governance: State party chief

The BJP's impressive show in the Manipur assembly elections is a reflection of people's acceptance of the party and its governance, state unit president A Sharda Devi said on Thursday.