UP Mahagathbandhan fails to stop Modi wave

Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party has won comfortable victory in Uttar Pradesh, the state where it created a record by winning 71 of 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2014. The BJP managed to neutralise the combined force of Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party Mahagathbandhan and the Congress-led UPA. The BJP was ahead on 62 seats, SP+BSP on 15 and Congress on just one seat till reports last filtered in. PM Narendra Modi has retained Varanasi seat.