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In the wake of dismal
performance of
Congress party in
the Lok Sabha polls
in UP, Raj Babbar
has tendered his
resignation to Rahul
Gandhi saying “The
results are depressing
for the UP Congress”

the party in the Lok Sabha polls in Ut-
tar Pradesh, Raj Babbar has tendered
his resignation to Rahul Gandhi. “The
results are depressing for the Uttar
Pradesh Congress. I find myself guilty
of not discharging my responsibil-
ity in a proper manner,” he tweeted. “I
will meet the leadership to apprise my
views. Congratulations to the winners
for winning the confidence of the peo-
ple,” he added.
by Bahujan Samaj Party as coalition could win the election. Many heavy- Samajwadi Party’s dreams also
candidate. weights of congress party including its shattered. Its star campaigner and wife
In Ghosi, Atul Rai of BSP defeated president Rahul Gandhi face humiliat- of Akhilesh Yadav Dimple Yadav lost
Harinarayan Rajbhar by 122,568 lakh ing defeat. Most of its leaders lost their election in a close contest from Kan-
votes. Rai polled 573829 votes and security deposits in the triangular nauj by BJP candidate Subrat Pathak
Rajbhar secured 451,261 votes. Rai has fight. Congress finished as runners up who secured 563087 votes whereas
been on the run ever since a rape case in Amethi, Kanpur and Fathepur Sikri she got 550734 votes. Therefore, she
was registered against him in Varanasi constituencies. was just short of 12353 votes to win.
on May 1. Rai, however, denied the alle- UP president Raj Babbar faced Similarly close confident and relative
gations, calling them baseless. In Jaun- shameful defeat from Fatehpur Sikri of Akhilesh, Dharmendra Yadav also
pur, retired PCS officer Shyam Singh where he was just able to secure 16.59 lost from Badaun just a narrow mar-
Yadav (BSP) defeated the BJP’s Dr KP percent votes as compared to BJP can- gin of 18454 by Dr Sanghmitra Mau-
Singh by 80,936 votes. The BSP’s San- didate Raj Kumar Chahar who won by rya daughter of state Labour Minister
geeta Azad wrested the Lalganj seat securing 64.32 percent votes. R.P.N. Swami Prasad Mourya.
from BJP’s Neelam Sonkar by a margin Singh from Kushi Nagar secured just Samajwadi Party won only five
of over 160, 630 votes. BSP also won 13.88 percent votes while BJP nomi- seats including its patriarch Mulayam
Shravasti, Ambedkar Nagar, Amroha, nee Vijay kumar Dubey 56.69 percent Singh Yadav (Mainpuri), Akhilesh Ya-
Nagina, Bijnor and Saharanpur. Its votes. In Dhaurahra young congress dav (Azamgarh), Mohd. Azam Khan
candidate Tribhuvan Ram lost Mach- leader Jitin Prasada lost election by a (Rampur), S.T. Hasan (Moradabad) and
hlishahr just very thin margin of 181 margin of more than 3.5 lakhs votes Dr. Shafiqur Rehman Barq won and it
votes and the candidate alleged huge to Rekha Verma and stood on third was runners up in 31 constituencies.
rigging took place in counting postal position. Former congress minister His major defeat also raised apprehen-
ballots. BSP contested 38 seats and Sriprakash Jaiswal on lost prestigious sion whether BSP was successful to
maintained runners up position in 27 Kanpur seat by a margin of over 1.5 transfer its votes to its alliance partner
constituencies. lakhs votes to BJP nominee Satyadev or BJP washed away caste arithmetic
Except veteran congress leader Pachauri. in saffron tide.
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