In Uttar Pradesh MLC polls, BJP, Samajwadi Party hold 6-3 tally, 2 seats still in play

In MLC polls held across Karnataka, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh, the BJP-led NDA secured 16 out of 28 seats, marking a significant defeat for the Congress party. In Karnataka, the JD(S) party managed to wrest Bengaluru teachers from the Congress, while the BJP won the constituencies for North East, West, and South East graduates.

JD(S) leader D K Shivakumar, who was contesting his first polls as Chief Minister, stated that the Congress would take corrective measures and acknowledged that they had not expected to win two seats as initially hoped.

Meanwhile, in Bihar, the NDA won four of the eight seats, with the RJD and Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj each winning one. However, the Congress party's incumbents retained all four seats for graduates, while all four MLC seats held by teachers were lost. The Jan Suraaj party made history by securing its first council seat, while the CPI lost its lone representation.

UP witnessed a mixed bag of results, with the BJP winning six seats and the SP three among the nine seats that had been declared by Wednesday evening. Independent Dhruv Tripathi, who later joined the BJP, secured Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers for a fourth consecutive term, defeating Rajiv Yadav by just 307 votes.

In Maharashtra, the MVA and Mahayuti parties secured two seats each in the closely contested battle for the state's five MLC seats. Among Mahayuti's victories, BJP candidate Kaustubh Gawade won Pune teachers, while the Sena's Kiran Sarnaik took Amravati teachers. Sharad Pawar's NCP-SP also won two seats.

The outcome in Nagpur remained uncertain as counting continued for over 40 hours, with BJP candidate Sudhakar Kohale and Congress candidate Abhijeet Wanjari trading leads throughout the day. Maharashtra Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal expressed concern over a large number of invalid votes, stating that the party had contested three seats and made every effort to win.