Samajwadi Party and INDIA Bloc Congress are leading with 34 and 7 Lok Sabha seats respectively in Uttar Pradesh, Election Commission data for polls in 80 parliamentary constituencies showed. The BJP-led NDA is leading with 35 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led with 35 seats and its allies Rashtriya Lok Dal and Apna Dal one each. Chandrashekhar of Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) was leading by 1,09,799 votes over Om Kumar of BJP.
Prominent leaders who comfortably took the lead over their rivals include Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in Lucknow, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav, Congress candidates Rahul Gandhi and Kishori Lal Sharma. in Rae Bareli and Amethi.
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Since winning five seats in the last election in partnership with the BSP, Akhilesh Yadav’s party has dealt a blow to the BJP in UP, which alone won 62 seats in 2019.
Mr Yadav campaigned from the front in the key political state for the opposition and was a good match for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and Arvind Kejriwal’s outfit.
In the race for the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat, Mr Yadav has taken it upon himself to support his wife Dimple Yadav and three cousins, who are all in the fray.
Earlier in the campaign, Mr Yadav had forced the BJP to recalibrate its narrative, even sending it on a bit of a spree when he hit back at the ruling party’s taunts about nepotism and said those without family had no right to call others.
