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BJP wins big in India's largest state, creates 'new history'

Last updated on - Mar 10, 2022, 23:46 IST
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BJP wins UP polls

BJP workers celebrate the party's victory in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, in Lucknow on Thursday.

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Poll results highlight people's stamp of strong approval for BJP's pro-poor, pro-active governance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said

Poll results highlight people's stamp of strong approval for BJP's pro-poor, pro-active governance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his address to jubilant party workers at the party headquarters in Delhi.

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​"Those who look at UP through prism of caste insult it, people of state repeatedly voted for politics of development since 2014," said PM Modi​

"Those who look at UP through prism of caste insult it, people of state repeatedly voted for politics of development since 2014," said PM Modi.

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​BJP supporters atop a bulldozer celebrate the party's victory.

BJP supporters atop a bulldozer celebrate the party's victory. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who is generally referred to as "Maharaj ji", earned a new sobriquet of "bulldozer baba" during the current elections due to his frequent reference of the heavy machine which his dispensation deployed to raze the ill-gotten property of criminals and mafias in the state.

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BJP workers on bulldozer

By the evening, the politically loaded meme -- which conveyed that the Samajwadi Party (bicycle being its polls symbol) has been routed by the might of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (or "bulldozer baba") -- went viral on social media.

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As counting began Thursday morning, a Hindi meme started doing the rounds on social media

As the counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh elections began Thursday morning, a meme in Hindi started doing the rounds on social media -- "A massive road accident in Uttar Pradesh as a bulldozer decimates an oncoming speeding bicycle".

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