Bypolls 2022 LIVE: Voting in 1 Lok Sabha, 6 assembly seats begins; all eyes on Mainpuri
Bypolls 2022 LIVE: Voting for one Lok Sabha and six assembly seats begin across five states.
Bypolls 2022: Polling on 1 Lok Sabha and, 6 Assembly seats including Rampur, Khatauli, Mainpuri, Sardarshahar, Padampur, Kurhani and Bhanupratappur across 5 states including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Bihar, and Chhattisgarh for bypoll elections begins.
In Mainpuri, the main contest is between Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) where SP has fielded Dimple Yadav, wife of former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav against BJP’s Raghuraj Singh Shakya, a former confidant of Mulayam’s brother Shivpal Singh Yadav.
While Congress has fielded Ashok Kumar for the Sardarshahar seat in Rajasthan is witnessing the battle. Kumar is the son of late MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma who held the same seat till his death which led to the vacancy in the seat.
In Odisha’s Padampur, Bihar’s Kurhani and Bhanupratappur in Chattisgarh, the key contest is between BJP’s Pradip Purohit and Biju Janta Dal(BJD)’s Barsha, JD(U) candidate has fielded Manoj Singh Kushwaha and Congress’s Savitri Mandavi against BJP’s Brahmanand Netam respectively. The counting of votes will take place on December 8.
Police-Administration forget that not only Yadavs but everyone votes for SP: Ram Gopal Yadav
“Police-admin doing the manipulation. EC had directed that deployment for duties be randomized. But when polling parties arrived, around 2000 of the staff were stopped & held back as reserves as they had Yadav surname. They forget that not only Yadavs but everyone votes for Samajwadi Party,” said SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav
SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav cast his vote for the Mainpuri By-Election today
Saifai, Etawah (UP) | SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav cast his vote for the #MainpuriByElection today.
He says, “Dimple Yadav (party’s candidate for the by-election) will win with three times more votes than what Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) used to get.” pic.twitter.com/5fADldj4uv
— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2022
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