As the BJP swept the biennial polls to the Uttar Pradesh legislative council, the Samajwadi Party — the principle opposition within the state — drew a clean. The BJP received 24 of the 27 the native authority seats, the place polling was held final week. In addition, the BJP had received 9 of the 36 seats unopposed.
In Deoria-Kushinagar MLC seat, SP candidate Dr Kafeel Khan misplaced to BJP’s Dr Ratan Pal Singh by a margin of three,251 votes. While Ratan Pal garnered 4,255 votes, Khan might bag just one,031 votes from the essential seat.
Khan was arrested in January 2020 after a speech he had delivered on the Aligarh Muslim University on December 10, 2019 through the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests. He was subsequently booked below the stringent National Security Act (NSA).
On September 1, 2020, the Allahabad High Court had quashed Khan’s detention below the NSA and ordered his speedy launch, saying his speech on the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) didn’t promote hatred or violence.
The outcomes take the BJP previous the halfway-mark within the 100-member House. Now, it should have 67 members within the higher home of the state legislature. But it suffered a setback in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency, the place it stood distant third.
Two independents and a candidate from the Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) emerged victorious within the elections. In Varanasi, BJP’s Sudama Patel stood third with simply 170 votes as Independent candidate Annapurna Singh secured a convincing victory with 4,234 votes. Samajwadi Party’s Umesh Yadav acquired 345 votes, Varanasi District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma mentioned.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”