Mainpuri Bypolls: Mainpuri fell vacant after Mulayam Singh Yadav’s demise earlier this yr.
New Delhi:
Bypolls in a single Lok Sabha seat and 6 Meeting constituencies are being held at the moment. Essentially the most distinguished is Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri parliamentary seat, vacated because of the demise of Samajwadi Occasion founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Listed here are the highest 10 factors on the bypolls:
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The Meeting seats going to polls comprise Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, Kurhani in Bihar, Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan and Padampur in Odisha.
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For the massive Mainpuri battle, the Akhilesh Yadav-led occasion has fielded his spouse and former MP Dimple Yadav. The occasion’s marketing campaign noticed Mr Yadav’s present of unity together with his estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav.
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About 3 hours after voting started, Dimple Yadav tweeted that she had been attempting to achieve the district Justice of the Peace to flag polling irregularities, however her calls weren’t answered.
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The Samajwadi Occasion chief then addressed the media, acusing the police and the native administration of stopping folks from casting their votes at polling cubicles in Mainpuri and Rampur. “There are movies that present that police are stopping folks from voting in Rampur. What are the Election Fee’s tips?”
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Concentrating on the Yogi Adityanath-led state authorities, he stated, “I do not know on whose orders the administration is working. What briefing has been given to them? Complaints are coming constantly since morning. Police will not be permitting folks to forged votes.”
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State BJP president Bhupinder Singh Chaudhary trashed the allegations and stated the Akhilesh Yadav-led occasion is headed for a defeat in all of the three seats polling at the moment.
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In Mainpuri, the BJP has fielded former MP Raghuraj Singh Shakya. Mulayam Singh Yadav held this seat for 5 phrases, however his victory margin final time was slim. This has sparked hypothesis that his daughter-in-law could not have a clean sail this time.
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In Rampur Sadar and Khatauli, elections are being held after Samajwadi Occasion MLA Azam Khan and BJP MLA Vikram Singh Saini had been disqualified after conviction in felony circumstances. Whereas Azam Khan obtained a three-year jail time period in a hate speech case from 2019, Vikram Saini was convicted in a riots case.
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In Rampur Sadar, the BJP has fielded Akash Saxena, son of former occasion MLA Shiv Bahadur Saxena, in opposition to Azam Khan’s protege Asim Raja. In Khatauli, Vikram Singh Saini’s spouse Rajkumari Saini is contesting in opposition to RLD’s Madan Bhaiya.
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By-elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Odisha are being held because of the deaths of the sitting candidates. In Bihar, the sitting MLA of Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal was disqualified. This might be the primary contest between Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United and estranged ally BJP.