The BJP on Tuesday swept elections to the Uttar Pradesh legislative council, winning 33 out of 36 seats weeks after its record victory in assembly elections in the state. But the Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP suffered a loss in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency. The BJP has lost the key Varanasi seat jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh’s wife Annapurna.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated the newly elected members of the upper house and said that the results proved that the people had immense faith in BJP and in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This is for the first time that the ruling party has attained a thumping majority in the legislative council.

The Samajwadi Party suffered a humiliating defeat and could not win even a single seat while the Jansatta Dal of Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiyya has retained the Pratapgarh seat where Akshay Pratap Singh Gopalji was the candidate.

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The counting of votes for the final results of UP MLC elections is currently underway and the BJP is eyeing a clean sweep. A total of 95 candidates are in the fray.

Uttar Pradesh legislative council has a total of 100 seats and 36 vacant seats voted a few days ago. The BJP is ahead in more than 30 seats and had already won nine unopposed seats of Budaun, Hardoi, Kheri, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Banda-Hamirpur, Aligarh, Bulandshahr and Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri.

With this victory in the upper house, the BJP will enjoy a majority in both houses of Uttar Pradesh for the first time in decades.

The Samajwadi had fielded doctor Kafeel Khan, who was jailed earlier for his alleged role in the Gorakhpur oxygen deaths in 2017, in Uttar Pradesh MLC elections 2022.

Only the representatives like MPs, MLAs, urban corporators, chairman and pradhans are eligible to vote in the elections of the Legislative Council.

It is another big loss for the Samajwadi Party and its chief Akhilesh Yadav, who could not dethrone the BJP by winning 111 seats in the recently concluded assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

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