Mulayam Singh Yadav

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, who led his party to win 224 seats in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, was on Saturday chosen to be the Chief Minister of the state.

The suspense over the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister seems to have ended. Sources say Akhilesh Yadav will be the Chief Minister of the state. According to sources, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has convinced senior party leaders on Akhilesh becoming the Chief Minister of the state.

Congratulating Mulayam Singh Yadav for sweeping UP assembly polls, his former confidant Amar Singh today said the electorate preferred SP's "immediate" relief like unemployment allowance than his long term plan to divide the state into smaller units for speedy development.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) has crossed the half-way mark in Uttar Pradesh to rout the Mayawati government and come back to power in the state after five years. The win has ensured the fourth stint of Mulayam Singh Yadav as the Chief Minister of country’s most populous state.

With the Samajwadi Party, Akali Dal and BJP emerging victorious in the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa respectively, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called up their leaders to congratulate them.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has conceded defeat in Uttar Pradesh and has taken the responsibility for the poor show of the party.

Samajwadi Party today said it would implement all promises made by it in the election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh, including execution of Sachar and Rangnath Mishra committee recommendations.

Samajwadi's star campaigner Akhilesh Yadav today said they will not pull down the expensive giant statues of BSP supremo Mayawati and party symbol elephant in Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party has crossed the half-way mark in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections and looks all set to form the next government in the state. While the party has already won 31 seats, it is leading in 183 other seats, taking the total number to 214 as per the tally at around 2.40 pm.

The Samajwadi Party has crossed the half-way mark in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections and looks all set to form the next government in the state. While the party has already won 31 seats, it is leading in 183 other seats, taking the total number to 214 as per the tally at around 2.40 pm.

The Samajwadi Party appears to be surging ahead to the half-way mark in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections and looks all set to form the next government in the state. While the party has already won 9 seats, it is leading in 186 other seats, taking the total number to 195 as per the tally at around 1.25 pm.

Samajwadi Party appears set to rule Uttar Pradesh after dethroning Mayawati, according to official trends of vote counting in five states in the Assembly elections which also indicate that Akali Dal-BJP combine might retain Punjab while Congress Manipur.

Samajwadi Party is leading in 196 seats in Uttar Pradesh but is still short of the majority magic figure to form the government in the 403-member House.

In a battle that almost every poll pundit predicted to be a four-cornered contest ending with a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP has pulled off a coup, according to the CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by the CSDS.

With just a day left for counting of votes, the Samajwadi Party today said it was hopeful of getting a majority in Uttar Pradesh and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will become the next Chief Minister.

When asked whether SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's son, Akhilesh Yadav will be made the chief minister, party leader Shahid Siddiqui said the question was "still open".

Polling picked up in the sixth phase of UP assembly elections covering 68 seats with about 24% of the over 2.17 crore voters exercising their franchise in the first four hours.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh were a cause for him to change the life of the people in the state.

Top leaders of the political parties will be campaigning in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Thursday ahead of the crucial voting day on February 8.

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