Congress at present has 34 members in the upper House and is on course to lose at least seven seats this year to hit a record low in Rajya Sabha.
The BJP has retained power in Uttar Pradesh after the 2022 assembly polls, winning a majority of the 403 seats in the state and is set to continue with its Yogi Adityanath-led government once again.
AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevanjyot Kaur defeated Sidhu by a margin of 6,750 votes.
The 'none of the above' (or NOTA) option on electronic voting machine (EVM) was introduced in India in 2013.
Owaisi, whose party drew a blank in the UP polls, has said the AIMIM respects the people's verdict in the northern state and continues to make efforts to win people's confidence in the future.
Arvind Kejriwal's remarks came after the Delhi State Election Commission sought the advice of legal experts on if it can still hold polls for the three municipal corporations here following a communication from the Centre for their unification.
PM Modi's visit to his home state came a day after the declaration of results of the Assembly elections in 5 states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a roadshow in Ahmedabad on Friday (March 11). He will also address a rally of over one lakh elected representatives of panchayat bodies as part of his two-day visit to Gujarat on March 11 and 12, a state BJP leader said on Wednesday.
Kishor's comment came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to the next Lok Sabha polls, scheduled for 2024, saying he hopes that political pundits will note that his party's win in the four states has also made clear the verdict for the next general elections as they had linked its win in 2019 to its sweep of the Uttar Pradesh polls in 2017.
The BSP and the Congress managed one and two seats respectively. The vote share of the Asaddudin Owaisi-led party was just around 0.43 per cent of the total votes polled.
"UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead, we should learn from it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power," Mayawati said.
UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead we should learn form it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said.
Most of the current and former ministers of the Punjab government lost the poll battle to the AAP candidates.
Lauding BJP workers for ensuring an early Holi by making BJP victorious in four states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the election results highlight people's stamp of strong approval for the party's pro-poor and pro-active governance model.
On its dismal performance in Goa, Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, Shiv Sena chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut said his party received less votes than NOTA (none of the above) because it fell “short of the notes” the BJP used. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party failed to open its account in states where it fielded its candidates.
The results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 will be declared March 10, but before that here's the Exit Poll of 30 VIP seats conducted by Ground Zero Research for India TV.
Navjot Singh Sidhu was a popular face of 'The Kapil Sharma Show'. But later he was replaced by Archana Puran Singh as he pursued his political career. He was the one who sat on the chair and laughed his lungs out on Kapil's jokes.
The Congress, with which he had a bitter parting just months back, hasn’t done too well either in the state, swept by an Aam Aadmi Party wave.
Kumar said the Punjab election results "signal the rejection of arrogance" and "politics of entitlement".
Apart from Uttar Pradesh, counting of votes in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa, and Manipur will take place on Thursday. The Assembly polls were held in these states over seven phases.
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