Some bad boys have lost and some have won.
While “senior” gangsters like Brijesh Singh, Munna Bajrangi and veterans like Hari Shankar Tiwari have lost the elections, younger ones like Abhay Singh (SP), Veer Singh (SP) and Mehboob Ali (SP) have won their seats.
Mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, who contested from inside the jail, won his Mau seat but lost from Ghosi.

BSP chief Mayawati has firmly denied that the results of the Assembly elections were a reflection on her government and its performance.

Congress MPs and ministers who have failed the party must now prepare to face turbulent weather ahead.
According to a senior AICC leader, MPs who had taken tickets for their kin on the assurance that they would ensure the party’s victory in their respective constituencies, will now be required to do some answering.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday tendered her resignation to Governor B.L. Joshi after facing a rout in the assembly elections.

The chief minister, apparently to avoid waiting

Accusing Congress and BJP of raising the minority sub-quota issue mid-way during the UP polls for their political gains, BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday said this helped in large-scale transfer of Mus

A number of Samajwadi Party Parliamentary Board members on Wednesday pitched for state president Akhilesh Yadav as the Chief Minister.

The party parliamentary board members, who met this mornin

The Samajwadi Party, which got an absolute majority in Uttar Pradesh, would chose its next chief minister after Holi, amid demands from the party's parliamentary party members that Akhilesh Yadav be h

Too many cooks, they say, spoil the broth and in the BJP, too many leaders and too many voices spoiled the show. The party that was tipped to make substantial gains in these elections has remained even below 51-seat mark that it had got in 2007. The BJP could win only 47 seats this time.

The Samajwadi Party’s victory saga — the party has got the highest ever tally since its formation in 1992 — has been written with a script stolen, ironically, from the BSP.

For young voters in Uttar Pradesh, it was the factors concerning their own future that have played a decisive role more than caste considerations along with a firm determination to vote out the BSP.