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Bharatiya Janata Party State president Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday send his resignation to party national president Nitin Gadkari, owing moral responsibility for the electoral debacle in Uttar Pradesh elections. “I have written a personal letter to the national president and will not elaborate much on it,” Mr. Shahi told.
The BJP which won 51 seats in the 2007 polls was reduced to 47 this time. Even Mr. Shahi, who contested from Pathardeva seat in Kushinagar, lost in the elections.
With early trends depicted a good show by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, the party said it took up issues which were not “sensational” even as it gave credit to Nitin Gadkari for the performance.
Bharatiya Janata Party has ruled out any post-poll alliance with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party. BJP MP Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “There is no question of a post-poll alliance with BSP.” He also said that the BJP was confident of forming a government in Uttar Pradesh. “We are confident of forming a government on our own. We won’t go for a post-poll alliance with the BSP or any other party. We are confident that BJP will be able to form a government on its own,” Naqvi said.
The BJP MP said that the party has decided its chief ministerial candidate for the…
Varun Gandhi, who is a Lok Sabha MP from Pilbhit and Bharatiya Janata Party leader has predicted that Samajwadi Party will emerge as the single largest party in the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh where two phases of voting are still left to be completed. Varun also said that Congress and the BJP would both improve their tallies at the cost of the ruling BSP.
Varun, also took a jibe at his own party saying BJP has 55 chief ministerial candidates. He said he did not think the results would be “super magnificent” for the BJP. Counting of votes will be…
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti has said she is hopeful that her party would emerge victorious and would form the next government in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Bharti, who was addressing mediapersons in Mahoba District, said: “Whatever indication I am getting are through you and the indications are that BJP is far ahead and another thing, which is very good for the democracy is that people are voting with great enthusiasm and I will appeal to the people to vote 100 percent or 99 percent because in a democracy, this right is the main…
The two opposing leaders addressing rallies in Kanpur today where polls will go on February 23. first Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi who has been campaigning hard for the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls is scheduled to hold a rally in Kanpur. Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said, ” Rahul Gandhi’s campaign programme in Kanpur is confirmed. He will takeout a roadshow in support of the party candidates”.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari will also be seen today in Kanpur where he is scheduled to address people in support of his party candidates. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh…