LUCKNOW: Votes in two UP s Phulpur and Gorakhpur parliamentary seats are being counted amid tight security. According to latest data Samajwadi Party has reversed BJP s lead by considerable margins. SP candidate Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel is leading by about 10 000 votes in Phulpur after seven rounds of counting officials said. Results for both the seats were likely to be announced by 12 noon. Both the seats saw poor voting with Gorakhpur registering 43% and Phulpur a measly 37.39%. The Gorakhpur seat was vacated by Yogi Adityanath after he became Chief Minister while the Phulpur seat fell vacant after the election of his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya as an MLC in the state assembly. With agency inputs
NEW DELHI: Counting of votes began today for the bypolls in the Lok Sabha seats of Phulpur and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. Here s all you need to know about what necessitated the bypolls and why they are important: 1) The bypolls had to be held after UP CM Adityanath and deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated their Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur respectively upon being elected to the state Legislative Council last year after Assembly elections. 2) Voting for the two seats took place on Sunday. While 47 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in Gorakhpur the turnout in Phulpur was lower at 38 per cent. 3) The saffron party fielded Kaushalendra Singh Patel from Phulpur and Upendra Dutt Shukla from Gorakhpur against the Samajwadi Party s (SP) Pravin Nishad and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel respectively. The Congress nominated Sureetha Kareem for Gorakhpur and Manish Mishra for the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat. 4) The triangular contest promises to be riveting as the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) extended support to the SP so as to take on the BJP. 5) The fate of the SP-BSP experiment could pave the way for the two major players in Uttar Pradesh to tie up in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to counter the BJP. In the last state elections as well as in the last Lok Sabha elections both the SP and the BSP got a drubbing from the BJP. 6) For the BJP Gorakhpur is significant as it is the bastion of the chief minister who has represented the seat in the Lok Sabha five times. Prior to Adityanath the seat was thrice represented in Parliament by his mentor Yogi Avaidyanath. 7) Phulpur once the bastion of the Congress and represented by India s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru witnessed a saffron surge in the 2014 Lok Sabha election when Maurya won the seat. 8) The BJP is rattled though by the SP-BSP alliance as it s afraid it will eat into Dalit votes especially in Phulpur. As it is Phulpur has never really been a BJP bastion. 9) SP spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said BSP support will help. Yes we are getting (BSP) support and it will help us. The strong image will especially attract Muslims and Dalits. I cannot say much but this much I am sure that we will win both the seats he said. 10) Adityanath lashed out at the SP and the BSP for what he said is an opportunistic alliance. (It s) just like snake and mongoose unite when a storm comes...People will vote for BJP keeping in mind PM Modi s policies of development and good governance he said.
Lucknow: Counting of votes for the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha bye-elections began on Wednesday amid tight security arrangements. The results are expected to be declared by afternoon an Election Commission (EC) official said. Ten nominees were in the fray from Gorakhpur while 22 candidates contested from Phulpur. According to the EC there are 19.61 lakh voters in the Phulpur Parliamentary constituency while the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat has 19.49 lakh voters. Representational image. AP The by-polls were necessitated after Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats respectively following their election to the state legislative council. Termed by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath a rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha election the by-polls saw a triangular contest involving the ruling BJP the SP and the Congress. The saffron party had fielded Kaushalendra Singh Patel from Phulpur and Upendra Dutt Shukla from Gorakhpur. The SP had fielded Pravin Nishad from Gorakhpur and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel from Phulpur. The Congress had nominated Sureetha Kareem for Gorakhpur and Manish Mishra for Phulpur. Gorakhpur is significant for the BJP as it is the bastion of the chief minister who represented the seat in the Lok Sabha five times. Prior to Adityanath the seat was thrice represented in Parliament by his mentor Yogi Avaidyanath. Phulpur once represented by the country s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru witnessed a saffron surge in the 2014 Lok Sabha election when Maurya won the seat. Click here for LIVE updates on the UP By-polls
New Delhi: CommentsUttar Pradesh bypolls were held on March 11 Sunday in Phulpur constituency as the seat was vacated by Keshav Prasad Maurya after taking over as the Deputy Chief Minister in September last year. A total of 37.39 per cent polling was recorded in Phulpur where 22 candidates are in poll contest from the constituency. The by-elections are being seen as a rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha election and are seeing a triangular contest involving the ruling BJP the SP and the Congress. BJP s Kaushalendra Singh Patel Samajwadi Party s Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel and Congress Manish Mishra are the key candidates for the Phulpur seat in UP bypolls. The Phulpur by-election result will be announced on March 14.Phulpur has been represented by India s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and later became the stronghold of Mayawati s Bahujan Samaj Party. The seat is important for the BJP as the party won the seat for the first time with Keshav Prasad Maurya contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha election. After 2017 UP Assembly Elections the seat was vacated by Mr Maurya as he took over as the deputy chief minister.The elections have assumed greater significance in light of changed political dynamics in the state. To topple the BJP arch rivals Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party have turned friends from foes for the first time in 25 years. While the BSP has not fielded any candidate from the seat former chief minister and party chief Mayawati announced that her party would vote for a candidate who will be in a position to defeat the BJP . Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had slammed the SP-BSP understanding as the coming together of a mongoose and a snake when a storm brews . On the Phulpur by-election day Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that he was confident of victory margins as big as in 2014 and was not worried at all .Attacking the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) the chief minister said These parties are indulging in negative politics politics of bargaining and politics of opportunism. The state has suffered the negative consequences.
Forty three per cent voters cast their mandate in the Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency today while Phulpur recorded an even lesser 37.39 per cent turnout as the crucial bypolls to the two Lok Sabha seats were held peacefully the state election office said. Polling began at 7 AM and passed off peacefully at 5 PM the state election office said. Gorakhpur recorded a turnout of 43 per cent and Phulpur 37.39 per cent it added. There were complaints of EVM malfunctioning at a few booths but the machines were promptly replaced without affecting the polling an election official said here. The reason behind the lower than expected turnout in the high-stakes polls in the country s electorally most significant state was said to be a lack of enthusiasm among voters who are now looking forward to the general elections which are barely a year away. Tight security arrangements were in place to ensure free and fair polling. Apart from the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and homeguard jawans 65 companies of central paramilitary forces were deployed to ensure peaceful bypolls. The bypolls were necessitated after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated their Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats after getting elected to the state legislative council. After casting his vote in Gorakhpur Adityanath said the BJP was getting widespread support. The people know that development is the only panacea he told reporters there. Attacking the BSP and the SP he said These parties are indulging in negative politics politics of bargaining and politics of opportunism. The state has suffered the negative consequences because of this. To ensure that in future such a situation does not arise efforts have to be made to shun politics of casteism and dynastic politics and the focus should be on development and administration. Asked about the SP and BSP entering an electoral understanding Adityanath said it would have no effect on the outcome of the polls. If the SP BSP and Congress had fought together then results would have been much better for us he said. Termed by Adityanath as a rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections the bye-polls are witnessing a triangular contest involving the ruling BJP the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress. The saffron party has fielded Kaushalendra Singh Patel from Phulpur and Upendra Dutt Shukla from Gorakhpur against the SP s Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel and Pravin Nishad respectively. The Congress has nominated Sureetha Kareem for Gorakhpur and Manish Mishra for Phulpur Lok Sabha seat. Ten candidates are in the fray from Gorakhpur while 22 candidates are contesting from Phulpur. Gorakhpur is significant for the BJP as it is the bastion of the chief minister who represented the seat Lok Sabha five times. Prior to Adityanath the seat was represented in parliament by his mentor Yogi Avaidyanath thrice. Phulpur once represented by the country s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru witnessed a saffron surge in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as Maurya won there. Maurya exuded confidence that the BJP would sweep the ongoing bypolls. I am confident that on March 14 (when results are declared) the record made in Phulpur in 2014 (Lok Sabha elections) will be repeated and our candidate Kaushalendra Patel will emerge victorious he told reporters after casting his vote for the Phulpur seat along with family members. Asked about the BJP s plans to counter the electoral understanding between SP and BSP Maurya said We have already expanded enough and in future if any political party wants to join us it will be definitely deliberated upon. But today from UP s point of view the poll alliance of the BJP Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) exists. Apart from this we do not have any other alliance. And banking on this alliance we will win 80 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state he said. Taking a jibe at the SP-BSP tie-up the minister said Their (SP-BSP) votes will be transferred only when they have enough votes . The votes (of the people) are with us. But they have only leaders who make statements...The voters of Mayawatiji have deserted the BSP and have reposed their faith in Modiji Yogi and BJP. We are winning both the Lok Sabha seats and with wider margin Maurya claimed. Union minister Shiv Pratap Shukla cast his vote in Gorakhpur while UP Health minister Sidharth Nath Singh exercised his franchise in Phulpur. Interestingly it was on this day last year that BJP and its allies stormed to power in the UP Assembly elections. In Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency there were 970 polling centres and 2 141 polling booths while in Phulpur there were 793 polling centres and 2 059 polling booths. According to the Election Commission there are 19.61 lakh voters in the Phulpur parliamentary constituency while the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat has a 19.49 lakh electorate. As many as 4 728 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines were used in the bypolls and provisions were made for web-casting from 95 critical booths. Counting of ballots will be taken up on March 14.
Lucknow: Forty-three percent voters cast their mandate in the Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency on Sunday while Phulpur recorded an even lesser 37.39 percent turnout as the crucial bypolls to the two Lok Sabha seats were held peacefully the state election officials said. Polling began at 7 am and passed off peacefully at 5 pm the state election officials said. Voters display their voter s ID card at a polling booth for Phulpur bypoll elections in Allahabad on Sunday. PTI Gorakhpur recorded a turnout of 43 percent and Phulpur 37.39 percent it added. There were complaints of EVM malfunctioning at a few booths but the machines were promptly replaced without affecting the polling an election official said. The reason behind the lower than expected turnout in the high-stakes polls in the country s electorally most significant state was said to be a lack of enthusiasm among voters who are now looking forward to the general elections which are barely a year away. Tight security arrangements were in place to ensure free and fair polling. Apart from the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and homeguard jawans 65 companies of central paramilitary forces were deployed to ensure peaceful bypolls. The bypolls were necessitated after Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated their Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats after getting elected to the state legislative council. After casting his vote in Gorakhpur Adityanath said the BJP was getting widespread support. The people know that development is the only panacea he told reporters. Attacking the BSP and the Samajwadi Party he said These parties are indulging in negative politics politics of bargaining and politics of opportunism. The state has suffered the negative consequences because of this. To ensure that in future such a situation does not arise efforts have to be made to shun politics of casteism and dynastic politics and the focus should be on development and administration. Asked about the SP and BSP entering an electoral understanding Adityanath said it would have no effect on the outcome of the polls. If the Samajwadi Party BSP and Congress had fought together then results would have been much better for us he said. Termed by Adityanath as a rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections the bye-polls are witnessing a triangular contest involving the ruling BJP the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress. The saffron party has fielded Kaushalendra Singh Patel from Phulpur and Upendra Dutt Shukla from Gorakhpur against the Samajwadi Party s Pravin Nishad and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel respectively. The Congress has nominated Sureetha Kareem for Gorakhpur and Manish Mishra for Phulpur Lok Sabha seat. Ten candidates are in the fray from Gorakhpur while 22 candidates are contesting from Phulpur. Gorakhpur is significant for the BJP as it is the bastion of the chief minister who represented the seat Lok Sabha five times. Prior to Adityanath the seat was represented in parliament by his mentor Yogi Avaidyanath thrice. Phulpur once represented by the country s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru witnessed a saffron surge in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as Maurya won there. Maurya exuded confidence that the BJP would sweep the ongoing bypolls. I am confident that on 14 March (when results are declared) the record made in Phulpur in 2014 (Lok Sabha elections) will be repeated and our candidate Kaushalendra Patel will emerge victorious he told reporters after casting his vote for the Phulpur seat along with family members. Asked about the BJP s plans to counter the electoral understanding between Samajwadi Party and BSP Maurya said We have already expanded enough and in future if any political party wants to join us it will be definitely deliberated upon. But today from UP s point of view the poll alliance of the BJP Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) exists. Apart from this we do not have any other alliance. And banking on this alliance we will win 80 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state he said. Taking a jibe at the SP-BSP tie-up the minister said Their (Samajwadi Party-BSP) votes will be http://kkdigitald4.simplesite.com transferred only when they have enough votes . The votes (of the people) are with us. But they have only leaders who make statements...The voters of Mayawatiji have deserted the BSP and have reposed their faith in Modiji Yogi and BJP. We are winning both the Lok Sabha seats and with wider margin Maurya claimed. Union minister Shiv Pratap Shukla cast his vote in Gorakhpur while Uttar Pradesh Health minister Sidharth Nath Singh exercised his franchise in Phulpur. Interestingly it was on this day last year that BJP and its allies stormed to power in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. In Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency there were 970 polling centres and 2 141 polling booths while in Phulpur there were 793 polling centres and 2 059 polling booths. According to the Election Commission there are 19.61 lakh voters in the Phulpur parliamentary constituency while the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat has a 19.49 lakh electorate. As many as 4 728 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines were used in the bypolls and provisions were made for web-casting from 95 critical booths. Counting of ballots will be taken up on 14 March.
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