BJP wins 3 but loses Varanasi in UP local polls

Lucknow : The BJP has won three seats in the UP Legislative Council, of the six where results have been announced.
All these six seats are in the teachers’ constituency.
The BJP has won seats in the teachers’ constituencies in Lucknow, Meerut and Bareilly.
Meanwhile, a major setback for the BJP is that the party candidate has lost Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, where the Samajwadi Party’s Lal Bihari Yadav has won the election.
In Gorakhpur too, an independent Dhruv Kumar Tripathi has won the elections.
Meanwhile, candidates and their supporters fought a pitched battle with the police in Jhansi at the counting centre on Friday afternoon.