Lucknow: Poll counting results in five states' assembly elections have give a clear pointer that BJP will come to power again in Up as also in Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur while AAP has made a landslide in the Punjab. While in UP, the BJP has suffered a diminishing of its seats in the assembly, mainly taken away by the Samajwadi Party (SP), Yogi Adityanath's government fared fairly well in the context of projections that it would take a severe beating, and against negative factors against the incumbents. In Punjab where the Congress had a clear majority in the last assembly has been the main loser. The party couldn't have suffered a bigger ignominy than the chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi losing both the constituencies where he contested: Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur. The elections are widely seen as the semi-final of the 2024 parliamentary elections, especially with UP in the picture whose results tend to be seen as pointer to the parliamentary poll. Right at the early stages of the counting, in UP the BJP has shown clear leading in at least 280 seats. Soon it became clear that the BJP would have no problem comfortably crossing the absolute majority mark of 202, although the eventual figure of 259 was 60 seats far below of its previous strength. Samajwadi Party failed to measure up to the challenge it was expected to make against the BJP, but it made gains in the eventual numbers from the previous 47 to 131, whereas the BJP slipped from 312 to 259 as of now.
