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UP Election Results Live: Rahul trailing by over 15 thousand votes in Amethi; mahagathbandhan below 20 seatsUpdates(101)

• BJP near 300 mark, Congress just crosses 5003:42 PMA lighter take on the Congress performance by Anirban Bora
• BJP, ally maintain lead over rivals in UP03:28 PMThe BJP and its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) continued to march ahead of their rivals, leading in 59 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, according to the Election Commission trends at 1 pm. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading in Varanasi by a huge margin of more than 2.19 lakh votes against Samajwadi Party’s (SP) Shalini Yadav — his nearest rival, the data showed. The BJP was ahead in 58 seats and the Apna Dal (S) in one. The opposition alliance of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the SP appeared to be doing well in 19 seats. In Congress bastion Amethi, party president Rahul Gandhi is trailing. Union minister and BJP candidate Smriti Irani has a lead of over 2,600 votes against him. The initial trends appeared to be mixed for the Yadav clan of the SP, with senior leaders Mulayam Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav maintaining their leads and the latter’s cousins and sitting MPs Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav trailing from Badaun and Firozabad seats respectively.
• Is it the end of caste politics in UP?03:26 PMThe alliance that was forged in January this year had claimed to trounce the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and, thereby, halt its return to power. The alliance with less than 20 seats has been left powerless.
• UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath:03:23 PM
• BJP+ leads up to 61 seats in UP now. Smriti leading by 15K votes over Rahul in Amethi03:18 PM
• Smriti Irani ahead of Rahul Gandhi in Amethi by 14,500 votes.02:56 PM
• “India wins yet again”02:46 PM
• 3 UP ministers ahead, 1 trailing02:39 PMThree out of the four Uttar Pradesh cabinet ministers fielded by the BJP are leading, according to the Election Commission trends. S P Singh Baghel, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Satyadev Pachauri are leading over their rivals from their respective seats, while Mukut Bihari Verma are trailing in the latest round of counting. In Agra, Baghel, who is minister for animal husbandry, minor irrigation and fisheries, has polled 71,570 votes as compared to the BSP’s Manoj Kumar Soni, who has got 57,370 votes.
• Decoding UP results: What went wrong for alliance, and what worked for BJP02:21 PMThe Narendra Modi factor seems to have trumped other factors like caste.
• ET View: The lesson for Rahul and Mamata from Lok Sabha 201902:18 PMOpposition has done better than it did in 2014, but nowhere on the scale it hoped for, except in Kerala and TN.
• BJP now leading on 301 seats and Congress on 50 seats.02:15 PM
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