Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday, 10 March, won his maiden Assembly election from Gorakhpur Urban constituency by 62,057 votes.
Adityanath (with 1,20,610 votes) was up against Samajwadi Party's (SP's) Sabhawati Shukla (47,232 votes), Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP's) Khwaja Shamsuddin (6,367 votes), Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan (6,139 votes), and Congress' Chetna Pandey (1,942 votes).
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is looking at a resounding victory in UP, which will make it the first party to retain power for two consecutive terms in the state. It has won 42 of the 403 seats, and is leading in 207. However, the party's apparent tally of 249 is lower than the historic win of 325 seats in 2017.
With just 3.31 percent of the votes, lawyer and Dalit-Bahujan rights activist Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan failed to deliver in Gorakhpur Urban, where a large number of voters belong to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs).