The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday registered an astounding victory in Uttar Pradesh by winning almost 270 seats, while its rival Samajwadi Party managed 126 seats. BJP's splendid performance, sweeping away opposition parties with its governance model mounted on pillars of welfarism, Hindutva and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's unflagging popularity has made it the firm favourites for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, just like its victory in a similar round of polls in 2017 had smoothed out its path for the 2019 general election win. The saffron brigade's one of major players and chief minister Yogi Adityanath also won from Gorakhpur Urban seats wiith a margin of more than 50,000 seats. People have buried the politics of caste and religion by ensuring the victory of BJP and its allies in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday. Addressing party workers at the state headquarters after the poll results and trends showed a clear BJP majority, he said the "misleading" campaign run by the Opposition over the past 2-3 days have been set aside by the people who reposed faith in the good governance of the BJP. Most ministers of the Adityanath cabinet won from respective seats, barring Rajendra Pratap Singh in Patti, Nand Gopal Gupta "Nandi" in Allahabad South and Suresh Rana in Thana Bhawan.
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