The ruling BSP has won bypolls to five of the 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, including Etawah, the home district of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has won bypolls to five of the 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, including Etawah, the home district of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
In Etawah, BSP candidate Mahendra Singh Rajput defeated SP candidate Vimal Bhadauria by a margin of over 32000 votes.
Rajput bagged 76,131 votes while Bhadauria managed 43,318. Rajput had won the seat in 2007 elections on an SP ticket but later defected to the BSP.
BSP also won Hainsar Bazar (reserved) and Isauli assembly seats.
In Hainsar Bazar, BSP candidate Dashrath Singh Chauhan defeated his nearest rival Neelmani of Congress by a margin of over 8,000 votes.
While Chauhan secured 47,815 votes, Neelmani got 39,018 votes. SP and BJP were placed on third and fourth place respectively.
BSP candidate Chandra Bhadra Singh alias Sonu Singh defeated his nearest rival Jain Narain Tiwari of Congress by a margin of over 49,000 votes in Isauli.
While Sonu Singh secured 82,063 votes, Tiwari got 32,686 votes.
SP, which won the seat in last assembly elections, was placed third and its candidate Mani Bhadra Singh to forfeit his security deposit.
In the last elections, Sonu Singh contested on SP ticket, but later defected to BSP after resigning from the assembly. BSP candidates Suman Devi Khushwaha and Rajdeo Singh won Lalitpur and Rari (Jaunpur) assembly seats respectively by defeating their nearest rivals of SP.
In Lalitpur, Suman Devi Khushwaha won by a margin of over 14,000 votes by defeating SP candidate Chandra Bhushan Singh.
The seat was retained by BSP. In 2007 elections Khushwaha's husband had won the elections. The seat fell vacant after his death.
In Rari, BSP candidate Rajedo Singh defeated Om Prakash Dubey of SP by a margin of 12,586 votes.
Rajdeo Singh secured 74381 votes while Dubey got 61395 votes.
In 2007 elections, Rajdeo's son Dhananjay Singh had won the seat on JD (U) ticket but later defected to BSP. Dhananjay recently won the Lok Sabha polls on BSP ticket.
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