Gorakhpur Lok Sabha Seat

Bhojpuri filmstar Ravi Kishan thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) once again reposed posed in him and fielded him from Gorakhpur for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, a seat he has held since the 2019 elections.

BJP leader Smriti Irani may have stolen the show with her astounding victory over Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, but there is one more Lok Sabha seat in the state where a BJP candidate has pulled in a huge cache of votes, also leading to redemption for state chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

More than 22 per cent voting was recorded till 11 am in 13 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said.

Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishan is BJP's pick for the national election in the crucial Gorakhpur seat - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's stronghold - which the party conceded last year to the alliance of Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Ravi Kishan, a famous Bhojpuri actor, has been fielded by the BJP as its national election candidate in Gorakhpur, a seat Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held for close to two decades before the party's shock loss to the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party coalition in a by-election.

Samajwadi leader Akhilesh Yadav, under whose banner Praveen Kumar Nishad won last year's by-election for the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat, had a pithy comment when the Nishad Party leader joined the BJP today. The BJP, he tweeted, had made a "loss-making deal" and alleged that the Nishad leader had been bribed into making the switch.

The giant-killer of Gorakhpur, Praveen Nishad, today joined the BJP, the party over which he had won a surprise victory in by-polls last year. The twist in one of BJP's safest seats in Uttar Pradesh, facilitated by the unlikely alliance of arch-enemies Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), set a template for the opposition gathbandhan for ...

The Samajwadi Party today announced Ram Bhuwal Nishad as its candidate from the prestigious Gorakhpur seat in Uttar Pradesh. The announcement came after the Nishad Party sprang a surprise on Friday night by parting ways with the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh and met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday announced candidates for the Gorakhpur and Kanpur Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party has officially confirmed the end of its alliance with an eastern UP party whose giant killing act on the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2018 bypolls cemented Akhilesh Yadav's alliance or "gathbandhan" with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party.

The politician who did the unthinkable by defeating the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur in the 2018 Lok Sabha bypolls may switch over to the BJP, in what could be a blow to the Akhilesh Yadav-Mayawati-Ajit Singh coalition in Uttar Pradesh.

Almost a year after losing the Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats to a combined opposition, the BJP is holding back from announcing candidates on the two seats for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

The Congress isn't going to field candidates for the Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh later this month, a gesture that the party says it hopes would improve the chances of the opposition's grand alliance to trump the BJP in these two seats.

Days after it joined hands with arch rival BSP to snatch the Lok Sabha seats from the BJP, the Samajwadi Party has decided to celebrate the 127th anniversary of Dalit icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar on April 14 in a big way.

Bhojpuri filmstar Ravi Kishan thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) once again reposed posed in him and fielded him from Gorakhpur for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, a seat he has held since the 2019 elections.

BJP leader Smriti Irani may have stolen the show with her astounding victory over Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, but there is one more Lok Sabha seat in the state where a BJP candidate has pulled in a huge cache of votes, also leading to redemption for state chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

More than 22 per cent voting was recorded till 11 am in 13 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said.

Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishan is BJP's pick for the national election in the crucial Gorakhpur seat - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's stronghold - which the party conceded last year to the alliance of Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Ravi Kishan, a famous Bhojpuri actor, has been fielded by the BJP as its national election candidate in Gorakhpur, a seat Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held for close to two decades before the party's shock loss to the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party coalition in a by-election.

Samajwadi leader Akhilesh Yadav, under whose banner Praveen Kumar Nishad won last year's by-election for the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat, had a pithy comment when the Nishad Party leader joined the BJP today. The BJP, he tweeted, had made a "loss-making deal" and alleged that the Nishad leader had been bribed into making the switch.

The giant-killer of Gorakhpur, Praveen Nishad, today joined the BJP, the party over which he had won a surprise victory in by-polls last year. The twist in one of BJP's safest seats in Uttar Pradesh, facilitated by the unlikely alliance of arch-enemies Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), set a template for the opposition gathbandhan for ...

The Samajwadi Party today announced Ram Bhuwal Nishad as its candidate from the prestigious Gorakhpur seat in Uttar Pradesh. The announcement came after the Nishad Party sprang a surprise on Friday night by parting ways with the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh and met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday announced candidates for the Gorakhpur and Kanpur Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party has officially confirmed the end of its alliance with an eastern UP party whose giant killing act on the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2018 bypolls cemented Akhilesh Yadav's alliance or "gathbandhan" with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party.

The politician who did the unthinkable by defeating the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur in the 2018 Lok Sabha bypolls may switch over to the BJP, in what could be a blow to the Akhilesh Yadav-Mayawati-Ajit Singh coalition in Uttar Pradesh.

Almost a year after losing the Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats to a combined opposition, the BJP is holding back from announcing candidates on the two seats for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

The Congress isn't going to field candidates for the Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh later this month, a gesture that the party says it hopes would improve the chances of the opposition's grand alliance to trump the BJP in these two seats.

Days after it joined hands with arch rival BSP to snatch the Lok Sabha seats from the BJP, the Samajwadi Party has decided to celebrate the 127th anniversary of Dalit icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar on April 14 in a big way.