Bypolls\, cabinet rejig on cards in UP after LS polls

Bypolls, cabinet rejig on cards in UP after LS polls

Press Trust of India  |  Lucknow 

The polls results are out but the election season is far from over in as 11 of its MLAs making it to the will lead to bypolls on assembly seats falling vacant.

Of the 13 MLAs, who were in the fray, 11 have won the polls.

The legislators who contested the polls included nine BJP MLAs, with four of them being state ministers, two members and one each from the BSP and the Apna Dal.

The section 151 A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 stipulates that a bye-election has to be held within six months of a seat falling vacant in an assembly or Lok Sabha.

Of the four ministers, except Mukut Bihari Verma, who lost from Ambedkar Nagar, three others won the poll.

They included from Allahabad, Satyadev Pachauri from and SP Singh Baghel from

Among the BJP legislators, RK Singh Patel won the Banda Lok Sabha seat. He is a from Manikpur assembly seat in the same parliamentary constituency.

Similarly, BJP MLA from Iglas, Rajvir Singh won the Hathras Lok Sabha from Jaidpur, Upendra Rawat won from Barabanki.

BJP from Gangoh, Pradeep Chaudhary won the Kairana Lok Sabha seat, while another legislator from Balha assembly seat, Akshaywar Lal Gaud won from Bahraich.

had fielded its Rampur MLA from the Lok Sabha seat of the same name. Khan was defeated by of the BJP.

BSP MLA Ritesh Pandey and Apna Dal MLA Sangam Lal Gupta, who contested on BJP tickets also won from the Ambedkar Nagar and Pratapgarh seats respectively.

The MLAs who lost included from Jaswant Nagar, Shivpal Singh Yadav, who had floated his own political outfit Pragatisheel Lohia, following family feud and had contested for the Firozabad seat.

Shivpal Yadav secured over 91,000 votes, failing to win the seat but causing a severe dent in the vote share of his nephew and SP candidate Akshay Yadav, who lost the election to the BJP candidate by a slender margin of over 28,000 votes.

With three Cabinet colleagues of making it to the Lok Sabha, a Cabinet rejig is also on the cards. For the new vacancies in the state Cabinet, some "devoted" leaders have already begun vying on basis of their "hard work" during the polls.

"All ministers and MLAs were assigned duty by the BJP in specific areas and seats. Rejig could see clipping of wings of some of the ministers and rewarding some others of them," a said.

With the next target set as 2022 state assembly polls, the BJP will be leaving no chance to balance the caste and region representation in the

The Party has already elevated the status of to counter the fallout of the exit of Om Prakash Rajbhar of from the alliance.

has been given all the departments Om Prakash Rajbhar was heading in a bid to project the former as a true and more effective "Rajbhar leader".

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First Published: Fri, May 24 2019. 17:01 IST