and Shivpur forming a part of Chandauli Lok Sabha constituency and Pindra under Machhlishahr, were also bagged by the BJP-led alliance.
and Shivpur forming a part of Chandauli Lok Sabha constituency and Pindra under Machhlishahr, were also bagged by the BJP-led alliance.
Anil Rajbhar won Shivpur, where the BJP had finished sixth in 2012, by a staggering margin of more than 54,000 votes. His nearest rival was Guddu Yadav of SP. The seat was won by BSP five years ago but it finished third this time. Its MLA from the seat, Udai Lal Maurya, had recently joined the BSP along with his mentor and Mayawati's former confidant Swami Prasad Maurya.
Ajagara was won by Kailash Nath Sonkar of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) defeating nearest rival Lalji Sonkar by 21,000 votes, while sitting BSP MLA Tribhuvan Ram finished a distant third.
The SBSP is a breakaway faction of the BSP, floated by former Mayawati loyalist Om Prakash Rajbhar. The party had contested 52 seats in 2012 assembly polls, losing all and forfeiting deposits in 48.
Contesting only eight this time, in alliance with the BJP, the party has tasted victory in four of these constituencies. In Pindra, the Congress-SP alliance came in for a rude shock as sitting MLA Ajay Rai suffered a humiliating defeat, finishing way behind BJP's Avadhesh Singh who beat the runner-up -- BSP candidate Babulal -- by a margin of 37,000 votes.
Rai, who was also the Congress candidate from Varanasi against Modi in the Lok Sabha polls, had begun his career in the 1980s as a BJP MLA from the now-abolished Kolasla.
After winning the seat three times in a row, Rai quit BJP in 2009 upon denial of a ticket for Lok Sabha polls, and fought the parliamentary elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket. After losing the LS polls, he won back Kolasla in the assembly by-poll that followed his resignation from BJP and joined the Congress before the 2012 assembly polls and won from the newly-created Pindra.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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