In the election results declared on Thursday for all 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured an absolute majority by winning 273 seats, including allies, to form the government. Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav on Thursday met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and congratulated him on the victory, after the BJP once again got a majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
During this, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s sister-in-law Aparna Yadav was also accompanied by his daughter. Mulayam Singh Yadav’s granddaughter was seen applying tilak on the forehead of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Aparna, who recently joined BJP, met Chief Minister Yogi and a video of her younger daughter applying tilak on Adityanath’s forehead has gone viral on social media.
#WATCH Uttar Pradesh: BJP leader Aparna Yadav along with her daughter applied ’tilak’ to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow. pic.twitter.com/NNjYxoNUyS
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In a video posted by news agency ANI, it is seen that Aparna’s daughter, with the help of her mother, administered the vaccine to CM Yogi. Both Aparna and her daughter had come to congratulate the Chief Minister on the victory. Aparna has also shared this video with her Twitter handle.
As long as there is movement in the blood, saffron cannot bow down.@BJP4UP @myogiadityanath #BJPAgain pic.twitter.com/ZqciRp39d4 — Aparna Bisht Yadav (@aparnabisht7) March 10, 2022
BJP registers historic victory
In Uttar Pradesh, out of 403 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party has won 255 seats. At the same time, BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) has made its place as the third largest party in the state by winning 12 seats. While another BJP ally Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (Nishad) has also won six seats.
On the other hand, Samajwadi Party has won 111 seats. SP’s ally Rashtriya Lok Dal has won eight seats and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party has won six seats. In Uttar Pradesh’s 403-member assembly, it is necessary to win at least 202 seats for a majority.
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Whereas Congress has managed to win only two seats. According to the Election Commission, BJP got 41.29 percent votes, Samajwadi Party got 32.06 percent and Bahujan Samaj Party got 12.88 percent votes.
CM Yogi became MLA for the first time
This is the first time that CM Yogi Adityanath has been elected MLA. Yogi Adityanath defeated his nearest rival Subhavati Upendra Shukla by a huge margin of 1,03,390 votes in Gorakhpur city assembly constituency. Upendra Dutt Shukla got 62,109 votes while CM Yogi got 1,65,499 votes. Earlier he was a member of the Legislative Council. When BJP won the 2017 assembly elections, the party chose him as the chief minister.
He was the MP of Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms from 1998 to 2017 before taking oath as the Chief Minister of UP in 2017. At the age of 26, Adityanath was the youngest Lok Sabha MP. He is also the head priest of Gorakhnath Math which is a famous Hindu temple in Gorakhpur. Yogi Adityanath is the first chief minister to return to power after completing a full term in Uttar Pradesh in the last 37 years.
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