SP retains Mainpuri seat, BJP wrests Rampur

AuthorStatesman News Service
Published date08 December 2022
Publication titleStatesman, The (India)
In Mainpuri by-poll, SP candidate Dimple Yadav, wife of party president Akhilesh Yadav, defeated BJP's Raghuraj Shakya by a record margin of 288461 votes. She received 64 per cent votes, while her opponent got 34.18 per cent votes

Earlier, Dimple was an MP from Kannauj, but had lost to the BJP in 2019. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, former defence minister and former UP chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav had won Mainpuri seat by around 94,000 votes by getting 53.75 per cent of votes.

In Rampur, SP candidate Asim Raza lost to the BJP's Akash Saxena by 34,136 votes. The BJP polled 62 per cent of votes the SP candidate got just 36 per cent of votes. The Rampur by-poll was held after the disqualification of SP leader Mohammad Azam Khan who had won the seat for...

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