New Delhi [India], As counting of votes gets underway in Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends the highest number of MPs to the Lok Sabha is witnessing a tough contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA and the India Bloc comprising the Samajwadi Party and the Congress. Is. ,

Samajwadi Party is currently ahead on 36 seats. Dimple Yadav is maintaining a huge lead over BJP candidate Jaiveer Singh by 1,40,966 votes. Her husband and party chief Akhilesh Yadav is leading over BJP candidate Subrata Pathak by 84,463 votes.

Samajwadi Party is leading in Faizabad which includes Ayodhya assembly seat. SP's Awadhesh Prasad is leading over BJP candidate Lallu Singh by 9991 votes.

Samajwadi Party's Lok Sabha candidate from Ghazipur, Afzal Ansari, is far ahead of BJP's Paras Nath Rai by a margin of 33,484 votes. Ansari is the brother of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who recently died due to cardiac arrest in March this year.On the BJP front, which is leading on 33 seats, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading against Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai in Varanasi by a margin of 1,32,205 votes.

Brij Bhushan Singh's son Karan Bhushan Singh is ahead in Kaiserganj seat by 83326 votes. Her father was not given a ticket in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as the former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief has been accused of sexual harassment by six female wrestlers.

In Lucknow, Rajnath Singh is leading over Samajwadi Party leader Ravidas Mehrotra by 42,048 votes.

Jitin Prasada, who replaced sitting MP and BJP leader Varun Gandhi in Pilbit, is ahead of Samajwadi Party leader Bhagwat Saran Gangwar by a margin of 1,27,040 votes. In Sultanpur, Varun Gandhi's mother Maneka Gandhi is trailing Samajwadi Party candidate Rambhual Nishad by 24,624 votes.

In Ghaziabad, BJP's Atul Garg is leading with 86,011 votes, while in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Mahesh Sharma is leading with 2,66,339 votes.

In the latest trends of ECI, BJP's Smriti Irani is trailing Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma by a margin of 88,908 votes. Maneka Gandhi is also trailing Rambhual Nishad in Sultanpur by 24,624 votes.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is far ahead of BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh in Rae Bareli by a margin of 2,71,752 votes.The Congress, which formed an alliance with allies across the country to form the Bharat Bloc, carried out two yatras: the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the second Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra under which Rahul Gandhi covered a distance of over 10,000 kilometers across the country. In which participation of some party colleagues was also seen. These yatras united the party and destabilized the NDA which is now evident from the Lok Sabha election results. At the same time, there was a decline in the performance of BJP, which did not change its strategy of contesting elections, across the country.

In Amroha, Danish Ali, who recently left the Bahujan Samaj Party and joined the Congress, is leading over BJP's Kanwar Singh Tanwar by 13,494 votes.

Uttar Pradesh sends a maximum of 80 seats to the Lok Sabha.Voting took place in all seven phases in the state.

Exit polls had predicted that Uttar Pradesh, the state with the most seats, was headed for a BJP victory with 65 of the 80 seats.

According to election forecasts, NDA's allies in the state, Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Rashtriya Lok Dal are expected to win 2 seats each, taking the NDA's total seats to 69.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the winner by securing most of the available seats. Of the 80 seats, BJP won 62 seats, followed by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 10 seats, Samajwadi Party (SP) 5 seats and Apna Dal 2 seats.