The duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has resolutely trumped the formidable ‘mahagathbandhan’ of regional heavyweights Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Even as the counting of votes was still on at the time of filing this report, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had already won 28 parliamentary seats, while leading in 34 other constituencies across UP, which elects the maximum 80 Lok Sabha members.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi was staring at defeat in traditional turf of Amethi and was trailing Smriti Irani of BJP by nearly