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History has was created on Thursday the 10th of March 2022 when results for five state assemblies were announced.

In country’s biggest state, the Uttar Pradesh, BJP’s Yogi Adityanath became the only chief minister in past 37 years to return to power after full term.

And Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Adami party became the only fourth political outfit since independence to wrest power in two or more states.

The Congress, BJP and the CPM had more than one chief ministers at any given time.

By the evening time, when this report was being filed, in UP the BJP along with its allies were leading in 274 seats out of the 403 seats in the crucial state assembly as counting was still underway.

Sprinting towards victory in the keenly fought polls, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP trounced its principal rival Samajwadi Party as the Akhilesh Yadav led party was left far behind.

The BJP crossed the majority mark in the initial rounds itself. As per the latest Election Commission trends available on all 403 seats, by afternoon the BJP was leading comfortably.

Adityanath was nearly 70,000 votes ahead of his nearest contestant from the Gorakhpur (Sadar) seat, while his arch-rival Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav led from his constituency Karhal against the BJP.

Adityanath is close to setting a record since this is for the first time after 1985, a political party is returning to power with a thumping majority in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The monk-turned-politician created history as the first chief minister ever in Uttar Pradesh to retain after a five-year term.