All roads leading to the residence of Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi, who may take the centre-stage in the event of a hung assembly, have been barricaded as vote count began on Tuesday.

Major traf

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accepted responsibility for the party's disastrous showing in Uttar Pradesh where he aggressively led the election campaign.

"I fought, so it is my

Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) seemed headed for a rout as early voting trends showed dramatic gains for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party.

BJP and Samajwadi Part

The expensive giant statues of BSP supremo Mayawati and party symbol elephant in Uttar Pradesh will remain safe with Samajwadi's star campaigner Akhilesh Yadav saying on Tuesday they will not be pulle

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday led in three seats and the ruling Congress in two as vote count began early Tuesday.

BJP candidates Ganesh Gaonkar (Sanvordem), Ramesh Tawadkar (Canacona)

The people have delivered their verdict and before the 2014 General elections, the message is loud and clear – a wake up call for the national parties.

As the current trend indicates, Samajwadi Part

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which might end up as the second biggest group in Uttar Pradesh, will not support any coalition government, BJP leader Muqtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday.

With early

Those opposing the carving out of a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday saw the defeat of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh as a verdict against the party's proposal to di

In a shocker for the Congress, the party was trailing in all five assembly seats in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh which is represented in the Lok Sabha by party president Sonia Gandhi.

Election Commiss

Pollsters appear to have missed the target once again in their projections in two of the states -- Punjab and Uttarakhand -- and even Uttar Pradesh threw up figures that did not match the predictions.