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Bypolls results are a mixed

bag as SP retains Mainpuri,

BJP grabs Rampur

Dimple Yadav, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s wife, wins with a huge margin;
Akash Saxena stuns Azam Khan protégé in the prestigious seat

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Ahmedabad

imple Yadav, former Ut-
tar Pradesh Chief Minis-
Dter Akhilesh Yadav’s wife,
has registered a glorious win in
the prestige battle for the Sama-
jwadi Party’s stronghold in Uttar
Pradesh’s Mainpuri.
The seat was vacated following
the death of SP patriarch Mulayam
Singh Yadav, Akhilesh’s father, in
October. Challenging her was the
BJP’s Raghuraj Singh Shakya, said to
be a former close associate of Akh-
ilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav.

Dimple Yadav has won with
a huge margin of 2,80,000

votes. The husband-wife duo -
soon after the magnificent win
- addressed a presser. “Voters
have endorsed the politics of Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav with her husband and party president Akhilesh Yadav shows the ‘certificate of election’

Netaji (his father) and devel- after her victory in Mainpuri by-elections on Thursday (ANI)
opment he did in Mainpuri, we
will take it forward. The ad- its candidate Akash Saxena defeated pur Sadar against SP’s senior leader hails from Rampur, held several
his nearest rival, Asim Raja.
Azam Khan who had contested the
door-to-door meetings in Rampur.
ministration created pressure BJP’s Akash Saxena defeat- seat from behind bars but failed to In another results, Congress
but voters defied it,” Akhilesh ed Azam’s nominee Asim Raza in defeat him. candidate Savitri Mandavi defeated
a close battle by a margin of over Saxena won by defeating Asim Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candi-
Yadav said, taking a dig at the 34,000 votes. Raza, a close aide of Azam who first date Brahmanand Netam by 21,171
Yogi Adityanath government. Akash Saxena after winning lost the Rampur Lok Sabha bypolls votes in Bhanupratappur bypoll in
from the Muslim-majority Rampur as SP candidate and now the Ram- Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
seat said, “I salute and express my pur Sadar assembly bypolls within a Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Alleging injustice against SP gratitude to all the people of Ram- span of six months. Bhupesh Baghel has reacted over
candidate in Rampur, he said: “If it pur for their contribution, especially Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the victory of the congress party.
had been fair election in Rampur, it all the Hindus and Muslims in this deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad He said that the difference between
would have been a historic win.” historic victory.” Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, BJP Congress and BJP would remain the
For the first time, the Bharatiya SP lost the seat within six months state president Bhupendra Chaud- same as it was seen in this election.
Janata Party on Thursday won the of winning the Rampur Lok Sabha hary, several UP ministers and many The result would be the same in 2023
Rampur Sadar assembly seat, con- seat in June. others campaigned extensively in as it was seen in 2018. CM further
sidered a stronghold of the Sama- In the 2022 assembly elections, Rampur for Akash. Former union said that former CM Raman Singh
jwadi Party leader Azam Khan when Saxena had contested from Ram- minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who

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