Uttar Pradesh by-polls live updates: The polling will take place amid tight security arrangements in the two parliamentary constituencies.
As soon as the polling for Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh began Sunday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who cast his “first” vote for Gorakhpur seat said the BJP will win both the bypolls with a big margin. He also termed the SP-BSP alliance as “opportunistic”. Reacting to question on Rahul Gandhi, the UP CM said that wherever the Congress president goes, the grand old party is decimated.
Parliamentary constituencies of Gorakhpur and Phulpur are witnessing bye-elections after Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated their seats, respectively, on taking offices of the state government. The stage is set for a high-voltage contest between BJP, Congress and BSP-supported SP. Having lost Lok Sabha and Assembly bye-elections recently in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, the bypolls for the two Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, especially Gorakhpur, has become a matter of prestige for the BJP.
READ: Gorakhpur, Phulpur bye-elections: Yogi Adityanath’s charisma vs SP-BSP combine
While the Mayawati-led BSP has decided to bury its 25-year-old bitter rivalry and extend support to candidates nominated by Akhilesh Yadav-led SP, the Congress is going it alone in both the seats.
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- Mar 11, 2018 at 1:05 pmI still mean 2-0 in favor of BJP, but why they should wait until 14th march for the results. There must be something wrong.Reply
Rajsekar BennakiMar 11, 2018 at 12:17 pmDemocracy cannot succumb to becoming an election event. Irrespective of who wins there is no change in the lives of the people in UP. The problem is that people vote in the name of caste and religion, and they like dialogues of a bollywood style hero. Only if we start asking questions on health, the state of our hospitals, roads and see corruption as a serious problem...then we can see serious politics. Should we not ask these leaders to come forward and tell their plans....rathwr than their usual nonsense.Reply- Dr. Naresh KumarMar 11, 2018 at 11:39 amWhat about bjp and pdp alliance? Is it secred alliance or opportunistic!Reply
- blackpower 666Mar 11, 2018 at 11:58 amit is a form of mutual prosti tution agreement - each s by the other of the other to the other and off the gullible people of kashmir. strange how two virulently vocal an hetics of each other can actually form an alliance purely for the sake of power - nothing strange, nothing new in politics though - the only ones to suffer are the people of kashmirReply
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38% voter turnout recorded in Phulpur till 5 pm, reports ANI
26.6% voter turnout recorded in Phulpur till 3 pm.
As per latest updates by ANI, 30 per cent turnout was recorded in Gorakhpur and 19 per cent in Phulpur, till 1 pm.
UP Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh casts his vote in Phulpur. Phulpur, once represented by the country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, witnessed a saffron surge in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and Maurya won there.
The voting for Gorakhpur and Phulpur constituencies, which began on a dull note, picked up momentum by noon amid tight security, reports news agency PTI. In Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency, there are 970 polling centres and 2,141 polling booths, while in Phulpur, there are 793 polling centres and 2,059 polling booths.
Till 11 am, the voter turnout in Gorakhpur was recorded at 16.80 per cent and 12.20 per cent in Phulpur, as per ANI.
Expressing confidence that BJP would sweep the ongoing Lok Sabha bypolls in the state, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday said the 2014 Lok Sabha record would be repeated by the saffron party, reports PTI. He cast his vote along with family in Phulpur constituency on Sunday. Voting for the bye-elections to Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats commenced today amid tight security.
Meanwhile, members of the UP BJP's youth wing will embark on a nationwide campaign on the occasion B R Ambedkar's birth anniversary on April 14 to eradicate casteism and spread the message of harmony among different sections of the society, reports PTI.
Terming the BSP-SP alliance as 'opportunistic', Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said people would not vote for those who have set aside their rivalry to join hands in the bypolls for the two constituencies. He was talking to mediapersons outside a polling booth after casting his vote for Gorakhpur seat.
Bypolls to Araria Lok Sabha seat and Jehanabad and Bhabhua Assembly seats in Bihar are also underway. It will be the first major test for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar since walking out of the Grand Alliance last year. The key challenge for NDA will be to wrest Araria Lok Sabha seat from RJD, whose candidate Mohammed Taslimuddin defeated BJP’s sitting MP Pradeep Kumar Singh in 2014. Araria had been with NDA since 1996. The contest is mainly between the late RJD MP’s son Sarfaraz Alam and BJP’s Pradip Singh. Follow Bihar bypolls LIVE updates here
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath says BJP will win both Gorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls with massive majority. He said the saffron party will win on the basis of Prime Minister Modi's governance of development. Commenting on 2019 elections, he said the party will emerge victorious in that too.
BJP will win both the by-polls (#Gorakhpur & #Phulpur ) with massive majority & on the basis of PM Modi's governance of development, 2019 election results will also be good for the BJP: UP CM Yogi Adityanath pic.twitter.com/O0TY4VGfU3
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 11, 2018