Mulayam's daughter-in-law among losers

Aparna Yadav, daughter-in-law of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, was among the losers as the saffron tide swept across Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow today, with the BJP bagging eight out of nine seats here.
This was a major jolt to the SP, which had won seven seats in 2012.
Besides Aparna, three ministers, one of whom was recently sacked, also lost in the Assembly polls.
Aparna was defeated by Rita Joshi of the BJP by a margin of 33,796 votes in Lucknow Cantt.
Joshi, former UP Congress chief who switched over to the BJP a few months before the Assembly polls, bagged 95,402 votes while Aparna managed to get 61,606 votes. Yogesh Dixit of BSP could get 26,036 votes.

The ministers who contested were Abhishek Mishra (Lucknow North), Ravidas Mehrotra (Lucknow Central) and Sharda Prasad Shukla (Sarojininagar).

In Sarojininagar assembly constituency, BJP opened its account with party candidate and state women wing head Swati Singh defeating Anurag Yadav nephew of SP patron by a margin of 34,179 votes.
Lucknow Central saw BJP's Brijesh Pathak bagging 78,400
votes, defeating SP's Ravidas Mehrotra by a margin of 5,094 votes. Ravidas got 73,306 votes.
Pathak, a former leader of BSP, had joined BJP just before the elections.
BSP's Rajiv Srivastava polled 24,313 votes, while Maroof Khan of Congress could get 12,921 votes.

In Lucknow North, Neeraj Bora of the BJP defeated sitting MLA and SP minister Abhishek Mishra by 27,276 votes. Bora polled 1,09,315 votes, whereas Mishra got 82,039.
Lucknow East, which is considered to be a bastion of the BJP, witnessed lotus blooming here with the party's Ashutosh Tandon (son of former UP Cabinet minister Lalji Tandon) defeating Anurag Bhadauriya, the Congress candidate by a margin of 79,230.
Tandon got 1,35,167 votes while Bhadauriya got 55,937 votes. BSP's Saroj Shukla came third bagging 31,390 votes.
In Malihabad (SC), BJP MP (from Mohanlaganj) Kaushal Kishore's wife Jaidevi emerged vistorious, defeating Rajbala of SP by 22,668 votes.

Jaidevi got 92,667 votes, while Rajbala could get 72,009 votes.
Bakshi ka Talab too also witnessed saffron surge with BJP's Avinash Trivedi defeating Nakul Dubey (former BSP minister) by 17,584 votes.
In Lucknow West, veteran BJP leader and former MLA Suresh Srivastava defeated Mohd Rehan (sitting MLA) of SP by 13,072 votes.
Srivastava polled 93,022 votes, while his nearest rival got 79,950 votes.
Mohanlalganj (SC) assembly constituency was the lone seat in Lucknow, where Samajwadi Party tasted victory and was bale to ride its bicycle.
SP candidate Ambrish Singh Pushkar of SP defeated BSP's Ram Bahadur by a selnder margin of 530 votes.

Pushkar got 71,574 votes, while Ram Bahadur could get 71,044 votes.
Independent candidate RK Chaudhary (who was earlier associated with BSP) got 55,684 votes.
In 2012 UP assembly elections, barring two assembly constituencies of Lucknow East (which was won by BJP) and Lucknow Cantonment (won by Congress), rest of seven out of nine assembly constituencies were won by SP.