India: Modi's BJP wins big in India's largest state election

NEW DELHI, 11 March 2022, (TON): According to the count of a state assembly vote “Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won the country's most populous state with a big majority.”

According to the Election Commission of India “the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party had won or was leading in 251 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, which it currently rules.”

Final results are expected to be out in a few hours but unlikely to change much.

Party workers in the state staged impromptu rallies to celebrate and smeared each other in the BJP's saffron colours.

Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said "the BJP will form a government in Uttar Pradesh with a thumping majority."

"The people of the state have rejected the opposition that was building a castle in the air."

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