UP: BJP leads in 55 seats; nail biting finish in majority of seats

Lucknow, May 23 -- BJP has doing fairly well in the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, though in several seats are going to witness a nail biting finish.



Of the total 80 seats, BJP was leading in 55 seats followed by 13 of the BSP, 8 of the SP, 2 of Congress and 2 of Apna Dal (Sonelal).

In preliminary vote percentage, BJP has got around 51 per cent of votes with party candidates getting a vote share of around 19 per cent 16.2 per cent by SP and 6.31 per cent by the Congress.

Among the VVIP candidates, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who was earlier trailing by over 6,000 votes against BJP's Smriti Irani, has now taken a slender lead of 1,700 votes. But Union minister Maneka Gandhi is trailing by over 6,000 votes in Sultanpur but her s...