MLC Results: Samajwadi Party wins Varanasi and Agra Teachers’ Seats, BJP holds Meerut and Lucknow

The Samajwadi Party has garnered attention ahead of the 2027 Assembly polls by winning the teachers’ constituency in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. The ruling BJP has held several key seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections, as counting is still underway.

As counting continued on Wednesday, the BJP had won four of the 11 seats, while the SP took the Varanasi and Agra teachers’ constituencies. In Varanasi, sitting SP MLC Lal Bihari Yadav retained the seat, beating BJP’s Pramod Mishra by about 4,900 votes. Akash Agarwal won the Agra teachers’ seat for the SP.

The BJP retained its Meerut seats. Shrichand Sharma took the teachers’ seat with 18,099 votes, and Dinesh Kumar Goyal won the graduates’ seat with 24,928 votes. The party also won the Lucknow teachers’ seat through Umesh Dwivedi, the Bareilly-Moradabad teachers’ seat through Hari Singh Dhillon and the Agra graduates’ seat.

As counting contiinues, In Lucknow’ graduate constituency the SP’s Kanti Singh was leading by over 7,000 votes against the BJP’s Avnish Singh. In Varanasi graduates sear SP’s Ashutosh Sinha led by 1,495 votes after early rounds. In the Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers’ seat, BJP’s Dhruv Kumar Tripathi led by 466 votes over Independent Rajiv Yadav after the final round.I

Previously, the BJP won six seats, the SP three and Independents two. The SP winner from Varanasi called the result a message to the BJP and challenged its claim that educated voters are firmly behind it. He alleged that the government’s education policies had hurt the sector, citing the end of honorariums for teachers in unaided institutions and modern teachers in madrasas.–