Uttar Pradesh, Dec.08: Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Dimple Yadav has recorded a landslide victory in the Mainpuri parliamentary bypoll in Uttar Pradesh by defeating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya by 2,88,461 votes. While Dimple, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s elder daughter-in-law and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s wife, polled 6,18,120 votes, Shakya received 3,29,659. The by-election in Mainpuri was necessitated by the demise of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
In the Rampur Sadar Assembly bypoll, Azam Khan’s bastion, BJP defeated the Samajwadi Party. The BJP won the Rampur Sadar Assembly seat for the first time after its candidate Akash Saxena defeated his nearest SP rival Asim Raja by a margin of 33,702 votes.
Bypoll to the Rampur Sadar seat was necessitated after Azam Khan was sentenced to three years in jail in a hate speech case, and subsequently disqualified as MLA.
In the Khatauli Assembly bypoll, Madan Bhaiya of the SP-RLD alliance has won the seat with a margin of 22,054 votes. He defeated BJP candidate Rajkumari Saini. While Madan polled 97,139 votes, Saini could manage 74,996.
The by-election in Khatauli was necessitated due to the disqualification of BJP MLA Vikram Singh Saini following his conviction by in different cases. The BJP had then tried to retain the seat by fielding Rajkumari Saini, the wife of Vikram Singh Saini.
The counting of votes was also held for by-elections in four other assembly constituencies – Padampur in Odisha, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan, Kurhani in Bihar and Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh, and for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls.
