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UP Bypolls 2018 Results News
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Adityanath lost because he was not fully positioned either on community politics or governance politics.
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A Twitter war between Siddaramaiah and his UP counterpart Yogi Adityanath are nothing new. They have traded attacks in the past on each other's governance during the UP CM's visit to poll-bound Karnataka.
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Losing a couple of seats in Uttar Pradesh will not impact BJP’s strength in the Parliament significantly. But there are reasons for the party to be worried ahead of a number of assembly polls and the Lok Sabha elections next year.
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The loss in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency is likely to sting the most.
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In Uttar Pradesh where bypolls were held for Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats, the BJP is trailing the Samajwadi Party by a huge margin in both the seats.
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While the results for the bypolls have not yet been declared, the SP is leading by 24,529 votes in Gorakhpur after the 16th round of voting. In Phulpur too, the SP is ahead by over 30,000 votes after the 17th round of voting.
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Political leaders cutting across party lines who have been opposing BJP see SP's triumph as a cornerstone in Indian politics and a start of a change.
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After 11 rounds of counting SP candidate Pravin Kumar Nishad is leading by 13,879 votes against his nearest rival and BJP candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha byelection. Nishad has received 1,63,941 votes, while Shukla is trailing with 1,50,062 votes.
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After leading early in the game, BJP has slipped behind the SP in Adityanath's stronghold of Gorakhpur.
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It is a tough fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party -led National Democratic Alliance and the opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh. The Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats were vacated by BJP leaders Yogi Adityanath and Keshav Prasad Maurya, who were elevated as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively after the party's victory in state Assembly elections.
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The polls are being seen as a curtain raiser to the Lok Sabha polls scheduled for 2019.
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