UP: Newly elected MLCs to take oath today

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oi-Madhuri Adnal

Lucknow, Apr 26: The newly elected members of the UP Legislative Council will likely be administered oath on Tuesday, officers mentioned.

Principal Secretary to UP Legislative Council Rajesh Singh in a press release issued right here on Monday mentioned that Chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh will administer the oath to the brand new members at Tilak Corridor in UP Vidhan Bhavan.

Over a month after its resounding victory within the Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections, the BJP has swept the biennial polls to the state’s Legislative Council by profitable 33 out of 36 constituencies.

One in every of three native authority seats the ruling celebration did not win was in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency, the place it stood a distant third.

In keeping with the outcomes declared on Tuesday, the BJP gained 24 of the 27 seats, the place polling was held final week. As well as, the BJP had gained 9 of the 36 seats unopposed. Two independents and a candidate from the Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) emerged victorious within the elections.

The outcomes take the BJP previous the halfway-mark within the 100-member Home. Now, it’s going to have 67 members within the higher home of the state legislature. Earlier than the polls, the BJP had 34 members within the Home.

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In addition to the BJP’s 67 MLCs, Samajwadi Occasion has 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Occasion has 4 MLCs within the Home. The Congress, Apna Dal (Sonelal) and the Nishad Occasion have one member every within the Home. The lecturers’ group has two MLCs whereas the Unbiased group (Nirdal Samooh) and Independents have one MLC every.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had vacated his council seat not too long ago whereas former chief of opposition Ahmad Hassan of the SP died in February this 12 months. The voters within the biennial elections are village pradhans, members and chairman of block improvement councils and zila panchayats, and corporators in city areas, moreover MLAs and MPs.

The Congress and the BSP didn’t subject any candidate within the Legislative Council elections, making it a direct battle between the BJP and the SP.