Lucknow, Dec 4 (UNI) Ruling BJP has swept the Uttar Pradesh legislative council teachers biennial polls by winning 3 of the six seats on Friday.



In one seat BJP supported Independent won.



BJP contesting the polls for the first time on official party symbol dent into the vote bank of the Sharma group and had ended their say in the teachers constituencies.



The BJP won the seats of Meerut, Lucknow and Bareilly-Moradabad while BJP supported Independent candidate the Gorakhpur-Faizabad seat.



The Agra seat went to the Independent while the important Varanasi seat was wrested by Samajwadi Party candidate.



According to Election Commission release here, BJP candidate Shreechand Sharma wrested the Meerut teachers seat after four decades from Om Prakash Sharma , who was the lead of the Sharma group.



Om Prakash Sharma, 85, was winning from the seat for the past 8 times.



In Lucknow teachers seat, BJP candidate Umesh Dwivedi won by defeating Independent Mahendra Nath Rai. In the last election, Dwivedi had won the seat as independent .



BJP supported Independent Dhrub Kumar Tripathi retained the Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers seat.



BJP candidate Hari Singh Dhillon won the Bareilly-Moradabad teachers seat by snatching it from Independent.



SP candidate Lal Bihari Yadav wrested the Varanasi teachers seat by defeating the sitting Independent candidate. In Varanasi seat BJP had supported the Independent candidate , who was runner up.



In Agra teacher seat, Independent Akash Agarwal wrested the seat from SP. The BJP candidate in the seat came on the third spot.



Meanwhile, in the 5 graduate constituency counting, BJP candidates were leading in majority of the seats .



The counting started on Thursday morning but due to several obstructions by opposition candidates , the process was delayed.



The polling was held on December 1 in these 11 seats where around 55 per cent of votes exercised their franchise.

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