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For Uttar Pradesh assembly bypolls votes counting on Tuesday.

For Uttar Pradesh assembly bypolls votes counting on Tuesday
The counting of the votes polled in seven Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats, the place bypolls had been held final week, might be taken up on Tuesday amid opposition Samajwadi Party’s (SP) cost that the ruling BJP has used the official equipment for “rigging and fraud” to win the elections. An common of over 53 per cent voters exercised their franchise on November 3 to resolve the electoral fortune of 88 candidates in Naugaon Sadat, Tundla, Bangarmau, Bulandshahr, Deoria, Ghatampur and Malhani.
Barring Malhani, which was with the SP, the opposite seats had been within the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) kitty.
At a hurriedly convened digital press convention, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the BJP of indulging in “rigging, fraud and whatever it could through the administration to win the elections”.
“The BJP has done rigging, fraud and whatever it could through (misusing) the administration. The government had made such arrangements that the voters should not come out. I will give detailed information after the results,” he mentioned.
On the polling day, nevertheless, SP spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary had mentioned the sample of voting indicated that his get together was going to win all of the seven seats.
At the identical time, he had accused the ruling BJP of resorting to ways to discourage the voters to return out and vote, sensing an impending defeat.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had mentioned earlier than the polling that “democracy will win, the coronavirus will lose”.
During campaigning, the Adityanath authorities confronted opposition flak over the law-and-order state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh, notably after the Hathras and Balrampur rape-and-murder circumstances.
The Naugaon Sadat seat fell vacant after the demise of state minister and former cricketer Chetan Chauhan. The Ghatampur bypoll in Kanpur Nagar district was necessitated as a result of demise of state minister Kamal Rani Varun. Both the ministers died of COVID-19.
The Tundla seat fell vacant after its MLA, S P Singh Baghel, was elected to the Lok Sabha, whereas the Bangarmau seat in Unnao fell vacant after the conviction of BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a rape case.
The BJP had dumped Sengar quickly after his involvement within the case was alleged. The bypolls to the Bulandshahr, Deoria and Malhani seats had been necessitated as a result of deaths of sitting MLAs Virendra Singh Sirohi, Janmejay Singh and Parasnath Yadav (SP) respectively.
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Aazad’s Azad Samaj Party has fielded Mohammad Yameen from Bulandshahr to check its electoral recognition.
Bulandshahr has the very best quantity of 18 candidates whereas Ghatampur has the bottom of six. Sixteen candidates are within the fray in Malhani, 14 every in Naugaon Sadat and Deoria, 10 every in Bangarmau and Tundla.

 

Himanshu Johari
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