However, the party failed to end the family monopoly of jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh in Varanasi seat as his wife Annapurna Singh won a one-sided contest to become MLC for the second time. He secured 4,234 votes defeating Umesh Yadav of SP by 345 votes. BJP candidate Sudama Patel got only 170 votes. The Brijesh family has a strong hold on the Varanasi seat since 1998.
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Two other seats namely Azamgarh-Mau and Pratapgarh were won by independent candidates. In Pratapgarh, Akshay Pratap alias Gopalji, a relative of Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, won the seat on a Jansatta Dal’s democratic ticket, while in Azamgarh, Vikrant Singh ‘Rishu’ defeated first-time BJP candidate Arun Kant from Mau-Azamgarh seat. He won by defeating Yadav. by a comfortable margin. Vikrant got 4,075 votes, while Arun got 1,262 votes.
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Vikrant is the son of sitting MLC Yashwant Singh, who was expelled by the BJP a week ago for ‘anti-party activity’, while Arun Kant Yadav is the son of Samajwadi Party MLA Rama Kant Yadav, who won the Phulpur Powai (Azamgarh) seat. Was.
There are 100 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and on April 9, polling was held in 36 vacant seats in the state, where over 98% of the 1.20 lakh elected MLCs are voters for the next six years.
After the results are formally declared, the BJP will secure a majority in both the houses of Uttar Pradesh for the first time in decades. At present there are 34 MLCs of BJP, 17 of Samajwadi Party and four of BSP.
This time not a single candidate of Akhilesh Yadav-led SP won the seat.
After the massive victory in the MLC elections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated him on winning the MLC. In two tweets, he wrote, “Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to all the newly elected members of the Upper House of Uttar Pradesh.”
BJP’s thumping victory in the local body legislative council elections of Uttar Pradesh today has once again made it clear that the people of the state are with nationalism, development and good governance under the guidance and leadership of the respected Prime Minister. ,
Even before the MLC elections, the BJP had won nine MLC seats unopposed from eight local officials’ constituencies – Badaun, Hardoi, Kheri, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Banda-Hamirpur, Aligarh, Bulandshahr and Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri.
From Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur seat, BJP candidate Rama Niranjan defeated SP candidate Shyamsunder Singh Yadav by a margin of 579 votes. This was Niranjan’s second consecutive win. In her earlier term she won on SP ticket but later in 2021 she joined BJP.
Similarly, in Faizabad MLC seat, Hariom Pandey of BJP won by defeating sitting MLC Hiralal Yadav of SP by a margin of 1680 votes. Pandey managed to get 2724 votes as against Yadav’s 1044 votes.
Ram Chandra Pradhan of BJP got 3,488 votes from Lucknow-Unnao seat while SP’s sitting MLC Sunil Kumar Singh Sajjan got only 400 votes.
BJP candidate CP Chand won from Gorakhpur-Maharajganj seat, BJP candidate Vijay Shivhare won from Agra-Firozabad seat by a margin of 3266 votes. Whereas BJP MLC candidate Pawan Singh Chouhan won from Sitapur by 3,753 votes. BJP’s Angad Singh won from Sitapur seat. BJP candidate Subhash Yaduvansh won from Basti seat.
BJP’s Ravi Shankar Singh Pappu dominated Ballia seat with 1981 votes. Minister Dinesh Pratap Singh took a hat-trick from Rae Bareli. He sought 2,301 votes. BJP Brijesh Singh Prinsu won from Jaunpur by 3129 votes.
BJP’s Ratan Pal Singh won from Deoria by 4255 votes while Samajwadi Party’s runner-up Dr Kafeel Khan got 1031 votes.