Polling is underway for the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh and Rampur, the Lok Sabha seats thought-about because the bastions of the Opposition Samajwadi Party within the state. Over 35 lakh individuals are eligible to vote within the bypolls and will probably be deciding the destiny of 19 candidates.
The bypolls to the Azamgarh seat had been necessitated by the resignation of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, who was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly as an MLA within the elections earlier this 12 months. The Rampur seat was vacated by senior SP chief Azam Khan, who too was elected to the state Assembly.
cording to an official assertion issued right here by the Election Commission, two basic and as many expense observers have been deputed by it to keep watch over the polls. Besides, 291 sector magistrates, 40 zonal magistrates and 433 micro-observers have additionally been deputed, it mentioned.
For making certain safety and peaceable conduct of the polls, ample variety of central and state forces have been deployed. The duty for the safety of EVMs and strongrooms has been given to central forces.
According to officers, 13 candidates are within the fray from Azamgarh, the place 18.38 lakh individuals are eligible to vote. Six candidates are contesting from Rampur, which has 17.06 lakh voters.
From Rampur, the BJP has fielded Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi, who lately joined the social gathering, whereas the SP has fielded Asim Raja, handpicked by Khan. The Mayawati-led BSP is just not contesting from Rampur. The Azamgarh seat will see a triangular contest amongst BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirhua’, a well-known Bhojpuri actor-singer, SP’s Dharmendra Yadav and BSP’s Shah Alam, also referred to as Guddu Jamali.
In Azamgarh, of the 18.38 lakh voters, 9,70,249 are males, 8,67,942 ladies and 36 third gender. Officials mentioned 2,176 cubicles are arrange at 1,149 polling stations of the constituency, the place an estimated 15 per cent of the residents are Muslim.All 4 meeting constituencies — Azamgarh, Mubarakpur, Sagdi, Gopalpur and Mehnagar–falling on this Lok Sabha seat had been gained by the SP within the current meeting elections.
During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there was an alliance between the SP and the BSP, and Akhilesh Yadav had gained simply, getting 6.21 lakh votes in opposition to BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’, who had received 3.61 lakh votes.
While central BJP leaders remained absent from campaigning this time, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sought votes for the BJP candidates on the 2 seats. Akhilesh Yadav and his spouse Dimple didn’t marketing campaign within the bypolls. In the 2019 Lok Sabaha elections, Azam Khan had obtained 5,59,177 votes, whereas BJP candidate Jaya Prada received 4,49,180 votes and Congress candidate Sanjay Kapoor misplaced his deposit.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”