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

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 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

As the results of polls in five states came in Tuesday, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah could not resist equating them with the quake in Delhi and neighbouring areas a day earlier.

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BSP boss Mayawati has so far maintained strict silence following Tuesday's Assembly elections debacle. Her government is now all set to be thrown out of Uttar Pradesh by a resurgent Samajwadi Party.

Samajwadi Party's new face Akhilesh Yadav said he did not want to be the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, saying his father Mulayam Singh Yadav deserved the job.

"I am not in the race for chief minister

It was a series of mistakes that appeared to have cost the Congress dear in Uttar Pradesh despite Rahul Gandhi's herculean effort to lead the battle from the front.

The talk in the party is that Rah

The Congress on Tuesday suffered a disastrous defeat losing all five seats in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli constituency, represented by party president Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha.

Four of the seats

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

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