Ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) won the Thakurdwara Assembly seat in Moradabad district, with its candidate Nawabjaan defeating BJP’s Rajpal Singh by a margin of 27,023 votes.
SP was leading in nine seats, while BJP in two after first three hours of counting in Uttar Pradesh where bypolls were held for 11 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat.
SP supremo Mulayam Singh’s grand nephew Tej Pratap was leading over his nearest rival BJP’s Prem Singh Shakya in Mainpuri Lok Sabha. “While SP is leading in nine seats, BJP is ahead in two seats,” an Election Commission official said in Lucknow.
Stakes are high for BJP, Congress, Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh after the saffron party’s near—total sweep of the 80 seats in Lok Sabha polls just four months.
The Assembly seats where by-polls were held include Saharanpur city, Bijnor, Thakurdwara, Noida, Nighasan Lucknow east, Hamirpur, Charkhari, Sirathu, Balha and Rohania, as also in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat which was vacated by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
While BSP did not contest the by-poll, Congress and SP fielded candidates on all 11 Assembly seats, whereas BJP contested on 10 and its ally Apna Dal on one.
Stakes are high for BJP, Congress, Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh after the saffron party’s near-total sweep of the 80 seats in Lok Sabha polls just four months.
