Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav on Thursday won the Mainpuri parliamentary bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, defeating her nearest rival and BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya by 288,461 votes
Bypolls to one Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh saw moderate voting till 1 pm, even as the two main contenders Samajwadi Party (SP) and the BJP accused each other
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a jibe at Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and said that they were looking for an opportunity to become CM, but "failed"
Hasan had won from Kairana in the 2022 assembly polls while contesting from jail. He was arrested just before the polls after several criminal cases were lodged against him
Maurya said that the BJP government has done the work of ending the terror of Azam Khan
But as soon as the BJP came to power, action was taken against criminals, as a result of which they either landed behind bars or fled the state, said the BJP leader
Raking up the Agnipath scheme once again, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the one who wants to serve the country will "never want to become Agniveer"
BJP's Ashwani Tyagi claimed that for the first time the entire 'Saifai family' has been forced to knock on the doors of voters in Mainpuri due to the fear of losing the seat
The bypoll in Mainpuri was necessitated by the death of Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav
Samajwadi Party on Tuesday declared Asim Raza Khan as its candidate from Rampur assembly seat
In a surprise move, the Samajwadi Party has named its estranged leader Shivpal Singh Yadav as a star campaigner for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-elections
Taking a cue from the people, Yadav publicly announced that he would resign from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat and continue as CM
The delegation will carry specific instances of the missing names and also hand over the voters' lists of booths where the names were struck off at the last moment, said senior party leaders.
The Mainpuri parliamentary seat fell vacant due to the death of SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav
She said it remains to be seen whether the Akhilesh Yadav-led party will be able to retain the Mainpuri Lok Sabha and Rampur assembly seats where bypolls are scheduled on December 5.
The main contest is between the BJP's Aman Giri, the son of Arvind Giri, and SP candidate and former Gola Gokarannath MLA Vinay Tiwari.
The ECI has asked SP president Akhilesh Yadav to "submit documentary proof" to substantiate his allegation about the deletion of voter names in 2022 UP Assembly polls
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly secretariat announced the disqualification of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan from the House, in a hate speech case
SP leader Azam Khan, who has been sentenced to three years in prison in a 2019 hate speech case, might lose his MLA seat if his eventual imprisonment term is longer than two years
The Election Commission has asked Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to substantiate his allegation against the poll authority of mass deletion of voters from Yadav and Muslim communities