{"id":336896,"date":"2022-04-12T02:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=336896"},"modified":"2022-04-12T03:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:49:02","slug":"bjp-sweeps-uttar-pradesh-council-polls-sp-draws-a-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-sweeps-uttar-pradesh-council-polls-sp-draws-a-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP sweeps Uttar Pradesh Council polls, SP draws a blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"pt4\">\n<div id=\"NEWSBODY\" class=\"newsbdesc\">\n<p>Lucknow: BJP scored a massive victory in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls on Tuesday by winning 33 of the 36 seats where voting were held through local bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Samajwadi Party suffered a humiliating defeat and could not win even a single seat.<\/p>\n<p>Three seats were won by independent candidates. The Jansatta Dal, floated by Raghuraj Pratap Singh @ Raja Bhaiyya, retained the Pratapgarh seat where Akshay Pratap Singh Gopalji was the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Vikrant Singh Rishu, son of expelled BJP MLC Yashwant Singh, won the Azamgarh seat.<\/p>\n<p>In Varanasi, Annapurna Singh, an independent, won the seat. Annapurna Singh is the wife of jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has already won nine seats unanimously in the elections. This is for the first time that the ruling party has attained a thumping majority in the Legislative Council.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister said that the results proved that the people had immense faith in BJP and in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a thumping majority in the Legislative Council as well as the state Assembly, the government will be able to do even better work in the interest of public welfare, women&#8217;s safety and self-reliance, employment of youth, and farmers, &#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister said: &#8220;We were able to form our government with two-thirds majority under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2017 and 2022 Assembly elections. This will be probably the first time that the ruling party will have a majority in the State Legislative Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"HASHTAG\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt2 mb2\">\n<div class=\"AdvtSample\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: BJP scored a massive victory in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls on Tuesday by winning 33 of the 36 seats where voting were held through local bodies. Samajwadi Party suffered a humiliating defeat and could not win even a single seat. Three seats were won by independent candidates. The Jansatta Dal, floated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336901,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336896\/revisions\/336901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}