The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday won eight out of 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh while two went to the tally of the Samajwadi Party, which fielded three candidates in the polls.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak said Tuesday night that all the eight candidates of the BJP won in the Rajya Sabha elections from the state.
Samajwadi Party chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said two of the party’s three candidates — Jaya Bachchan and Ramji Lal Suman — have emerged victorious. The third SP candidate Alok Ranjan conceded defeat earlier.
In a post in Hindi on X, Deputy Chief Minister Maurya congratulated the eight BJP candidates who won. “Certainly, this spectacular victory is a guarantee of development based on the basic mantra of Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji: Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas,” he said.
Another deputy chief minister, Pathak, also congratulated the winning BJP candidates. In a post in Hindi on X, he said, “This victory is a symbol of the country and the state’s unwavering faith in the illustrious Prime Minister’s ‘Viksit Bharat Modi kee Guarantee’.” An official announcement of the results is awaited.
There was high drama in Uttar Pradesh where amid concerns over cross-voting, SP chief whip Manoj Pandey quit while polling was underway. As many as eight SP MLAs also did not attend a meeting called by the Yadav on Monday. SP candidate and retired IAS officer Alok Ranjan lost to BJP’s Sanjay Seth, an industrialist.
The other seven BJP candidates who won are: former Union minister RPN Singh, former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, general secretary of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit Amarpal Maurya, former state minister Sangeeta Balwant (Bind), party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, former MLA Sadhna Singh, and former Agra mayor Naveen Jain. SP’s actor-MP Jaya Bachchan won another term while Dalit leader Ramji Lal Suman bagged the second seat for the party.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav warned that strict action will be taken against the MLAs who cross voted. “Those who wanted to profit from the situation will go. Those who were given assurances (by the BJP) will go,” he told reporters at the assembly premises before casting his vote. “The BJP can adopt all tricks to win elections. It must have given assurance (to some MLAs) of some profit… BJP will do anything to win,” he added.
(With PTI inputs)
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