Agra, Uttar Pradesh). According to the results declared so far on Thursday for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won all nine assembly seats in Agra district and five assembly seats in Mathura district. .
It is worth noting that in the 2017 assembly elections also, all nine seats in Agra had come to the account of BJP. According to the information available on the website of the Election Commission, sitting MLA from Agra North Assembly seat, Purushottam Khandelwal of BJP has defeated his nearest rival Shabbir Abbas of BSP by a margin of 1,12,371 votes.
Khandelwal’s margin of victory was the highest in the district. The winning margin of BJP’s outgoing MLA Rani Pakshalika Singh from Bah assembly seat was the shortest. He defeated his nearest rival Madhusudan Sharma of SP by 24,235 votes. BJP’s National Vice President and former Governor Babyrani Maurya won the Agra Rural seat with 1,37,310 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Kiran Prabha Kesari of BSP by 76,608 votes.
Outgoing BJP MLA from Agra Cantonment seat, Dr. G. s. Dharmesh defeated his nearest rival Kunwarchandra Vakil of SP by 48,697 votes. In Agra South assembly seat, sitting BJP MLA Yogendra Upadhyay defeated his nearest rival Viyan Agrawal of SP by 56,640 votes.
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In Fatehabad assembly seat, BJP’s Chhotelal Verma defeated his nearest rival SP’s Rupali Dixit by 53,392 votes. Chaudhary Babulal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Brajesh Chahar of SP-RLD alliance by 47,011 votes from Fatehpur Sikri assembly seat in Agra.
Dr. Dharampal Singh of BJP candidate from Agra Etmadpur seat defeated his nearest rival Prabal Pratap Singh of BSP by 46,445 votes. Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha of BJP defeated his nearest rival Ramnath Sikarwar of Congress by 36,497 votes from Kheragarh assembly seat in Agra.
According to the information available on the website of the Election Commission, this time all the five assembly seats in Mathura district have come in the account of BJP. Even the BJP candidate has won from the Mant assembly seat, which has remained out of reach till now. Shrikant Sharma (1,58,859) of BJP candidate and Energy Minister in the government from Mathura assembly seat of the district defeated his nearest rival Pradeep Mathur (49,056) of Congress by 1,09,803 votes.
BJP candidate from Umbrella Assembly seat and State Animal Husbandry, Milk Development and Fisheries Minister Ch. Laxminarayan (1,24,414) set a new record by defeating his nearest rival Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) candidate Thakur Tejpal Singh (75,446) by 48,968 votes. (agency)