UP registers average polling in peaceful by-elections
14 Sep 2014 10:39 PM GMT
Around 46.20 per cent votes were polled in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat where chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his MP wife Dimple Yadav also cast their votes.
The polls were preceded by bitter campaign inviting adverse remarks from the Election Commission BJP’s star campaigner Yogi Adityanath. The state’s ruling Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the main contenders in most of the assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat.
Among the assembly constituencies, communally surcharged Thakurdwara in Moradabad and Nighasan in Lakhimpur witnessed brisk polling with 54 per cent turnout in the first eight hours, but it was poor in urban Noida on Delhi border where only 24 per cent votes were polled. Â
Strong security arrangements were made in constituencies along with micro-observers to ensure free and fair election. The Assembly seats where bypolls are being held include Saharanpur city, Bijnor, Thakurdwara, Noida, Nighasan Lucknow east, Hamirpur, Charkhari, Sirathu, Balha and Rohania. Bye-elections are also being held in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, which was vacated by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Eleven Vidhan Sabha seats fell vacant after 10 BJP MLAs and one of its ally, Apna Dal, were elected to the Lok Sabha. While BSP is not contesting the bypoll, Congress and SP have fielded candidates on all 11 assembly seats, BJP is contesting on 10 and its ally Apna Dal on one. Â
In Mainpuri, BSP and Congress have not fielded their candidates. Here the contest is between Mulayam’s relative Tej Pratap Singh and BJP’s Shiv Singh Shakya. If retaining Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, vacated by SP supremo Mualayam Singh Yadav who had won from two LS seats including Azamgarh, is a matter of prestige for his party, BJP faces the challenge of holding on to the 11 assembly seats won earlier by the party.
BJP chief Amit Shah also faces the challenge in the bypolls in UP as he is considered the main strategist behind the party’s stupendous success in last Lok Sabha poll. SP is going all out to retain Mainpuri where the bypoll would mark the launch of Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, the gennext of the extended of Mulayam Singh Yadav family. Tej is the grandson of SP chief’s elder brother.
The challenge for SP is not just to win the seat again but also to maintain the big margin with which Mulayam had romped home. In Mainpuri, BSP and Congress have not fielded their candidates, leaving a straight contest between Tej Pratap Singh and BJP’s Shiv Singh Shakya. The state’s ruling Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the main contenders in most of the assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat.
The polls were preceded by bitter campaign inviting adverse remarks from the Election Commission BJP’s star campaigner Yogi Adityanath. The state’s ruling Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the main contenders in most of the assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat.
Among the assembly constituencies, communally surcharged Thakurdwara in Moradabad and Nighasan in Lakhimpur witnessed brisk polling with 54 per cent turnout in the first eight hours, but it was poor in urban Noida on Delhi border where only 24 per cent votes were polled. Â
Strong security arrangements were made in constituencies along with micro-observers to ensure free and fair election. The Assembly seats where bypolls are being held include Saharanpur city, Bijnor, Thakurdwara, Noida, Nighasan Lucknow east, Hamirpur, Charkhari, Sirathu, Balha and Rohania. Bye-elections are also being held in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, which was vacated by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Eleven Vidhan Sabha seats fell vacant after 10 BJP MLAs and one of its ally, Apna Dal, were elected to the Lok Sabha. While BSP is not contesting the bypoll, Congress and SP have fielded candidates on all 11 assembly seats, BJP is contesting on 10 and its ally Apna Dal on one. Â
In Mainpuri, BSP and Congress have not fielded their candidates. Here the contest is between Mulayam’s relative Tej Pratap Singh and BJP’s Shiv Singh Shakya. If retaining Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, vacated by SP supremo Mualayam Singh Yadav who had won from two LS seats including Azamgarh, is a matter of prestige for his party, BJP faces the challenge of holding on to the 11 assembly seats won earlier by the party.
BJP chief Amit Shah also faces the challenge in the bypolls in UP as he is considered the main strategist behind the party’s stupendous success in last Lok Sabha poll. SP is going all out to retain Mainpuri where the bypoll would mark the launch of Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, the gennext of the extended of Mulayam Singh Yadav family. Tej is the grandson of SP chief’s elder brother.
The challenge for SP is not just to win the seat again but also to maintain the big margin with which Mulayam had romped home. In Mainpuri, BSP and Congress have not fielded their candidates, leaving a straight contest between Tej Pratap Singh and BJP’s Shiv Singh Shakya. The state’s ruling Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the main contenders in most of the assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat.
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