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Assembly election results 2022: Making sense of the 'waveless' BJP sweep

The key takeaway from the present election is that the phase of BJP waves that can be sensed is over. The reason: a wave is sensed when there is change

BJP sweeps UP polls 2022: How CM Yogi Adityanath won a historic second term

Apart from becoming the first chief minister to retain power in Uttar Pradesh since the 1985 assembly elections, he is the only CM of the state with a full five years in the office to win the subsequent election and hold on to it.

2022 Assembly elections mandate shows Yogi is king in North and AAP is harbinger of hope

Yogi Adityanath has emerged as the new hero figure of the right, and Arvind Kejriwal willy-nilly of the centre-left, with significant implications for national politics.

2022 Assembly poll results: Seven reasons why BJP won Uttar Pradesh

The real trench warfare was between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP. Priyanka Gandhi did try to revive the Congress but its virtual absence at the grassroots was a major setback. Mayawati’s political decimation trotted up BJP’s numbers

Assembly Election results 2022: How Punjab and Uttar Pradesh wins catapult Kejriwal and Yogi to the national stage

The two state leaders have done the unthinkable in 2022. While Yogi Adityanath has become the first chief minister in Uttar Pradesh to be re-elected, Arvind Kejriwal's AAP has become the first regional party to win a second state

Assembly election result 2022: From Yogi in Uttar Pradesh to Punjab’s Charanjit Singh Channi; a look at how the heavyweights are faring

Who’s leading, who’s trailing… Here’s where our famous netas stand as counting progresses

Assembly Elections 2022: Yogi gives Narendra Modi the key to 2024 poll vault

The results show that the BJP is the recent past, present, and future. The Congress is dead and regional parties are just about getting by

UP Assembly Elections 2022: With exit polls favouring BJP, stage set for counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh

Almost all the exit polls have predicted that the BJP will return to power. They have forecast an increase in Samajwadi Party's tally but not enough to form the government.

Exit Polls hint at unprecedented times ahead in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab

While Uttar Pradesh is likely to see the return of an incumbent chief minister after completing his full five-year term, one may see a change in the binary nature of Punjab politics so far dominated by Congress and Akali Dal

As exit polls predict Uttarakhand cliffhanger, Congress and BJP huddle in closed-door meets

Some of the surveys gave an edge to the BJP while others indicated a close fight and a possible hung Assembly