UP Bypoll: After 70 years Rampur Sadar gets its first Hindu MLA breaching Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s stronghold
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UP Bypoll: After 70 years Rampur Sadar gets its first Hindu MLA breaching Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s stronghold
On Thursday, December 8, for the primary time, the Rampur Sadar meeting seat has been received via way of means of a Hindu candidate. BJP candidate Akash Saxena inflicted a crushing defeat on Samajwadi Party candidate Mohammed Asim Raja, breaching the stronghold of SP’s arguable chief Azam Khan. The anciental feat has been done after 70 years and 20 meeting elections. Akash Saxena obtained 80964 votes, accounting for 61.95% of the whole votes solid. Asim Raja of the SP needed to accept 47262 votes.
After the consequences have been announced, the Samajwadi candidate blamed the Rampur police for his defeat. While speakme to neighborhood media, Asim Raja claimed that 70% votes have been stolen withinside the bypoll. He alleged that the Rampur police forcibly stopped humans from voting. “Elections have been held in Rampur on December 5, and we had formerly said that elections had now no longer taken region in Rampur,” he said.
The SP candidate additionally accused police of sales space capturing. “Police did now no longer permit Rampur citizens to vote in any of the town’s 2 hundred polling stations. Booths had been looted. Only 20% of the vote become solid in 252 polling places. All of the cubicles out of doors of the town and village have been captured. There has been 50-70-80% voting. All the cubicles have been captured. 2.25 lakh electorate have been denied the proper to vote.
Only 45,000 votes have been solid, and a lot of them have been solid via way of means of police officers. The counting has begun. However, withinside the town in which the SP had a stronghold, in which the whole vote become 70%, they have been now no longer allowed to vote,” Asim Raja claimed.
However, no such instances had been said and elections have been held peacefully. Notably, Bypoll at the Rampur Sadar seat become necessitated after Azam Khan become sentenced to a few years in prison in a hate speech case, and therefore disqualified as MLA. Due to his conviction, Azam Khan can’t contest elections for the following 6 years.
