New Delhi: The counting for votes for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is underway. As per early trends, BJP-led NDA has a considerable lead in most of the states. Out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, trends are out for 40 odd seats in which BJP was in the driver's seats with their candidates leading in 28 seats. The SP-BSP-RLD Mahagathbandan was leading in 8 seats with the Congress leading in 2 seats.

Among all the early trends in Uttar Pradesh, the most notable is that of BJP's Smriti Irani who had a lead of 2000 votes over Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.

Among the 28 seats in which BJP is leading, Prime Minister Modi had a considerable lead in Varanasi while Rajnath Singh was leading from Lucknow seat. Among the other major bigwigs, Rita Bahuguna from Allahabad seat, General VK Singh from Ghaziabad, Rajesh Agarwal from Meerut and Kunwar Sarvesh Singh from Moradabad were leading. BJP's Ravi Kishan leading from Gorakhpur seat in Uttar Pradesh.

Meanwhile,some good news was coming for Congress party where Sonia Gandhi were leading from their traditional stronghold in Amethi and Rae Bareli. As per last reports, Rahul Gandhi and Smriti Irani were engaged in a neck to neck battle.The SP-BSP-RLD Mahagathbandhan dint seems to have much impact in the seats from where the trends were coming out.

Uttar Pradesh which contributed the highest number of seats to the parliament voted across seven phases in the Lok Sabha polls. The 2019 Lok Sabha took place across 542 constituencies across 7 phases from April 11 to May 19.