A day after the ruling BJP swept the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council bypolls, BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday lashed out at the Samajwadi Party for fielding Dalit and OBC candidates despite knowing that the numbers were stacked against them. She also appealed to the Dalit and backward class
The opposition unity suffered a blow in the MLC bypolls with Congress legislators not casting their votes, while the lone BSP MLA could not make it to Lucknow to exercise his voting rights
Voting for the by-election to two seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from the state assembly constituency will be held on Monday.
Samajwadi Party, by fielding two candidates in the bypoll, has forced polling. Usually the ruling party candidates are elected unopposed and opposition never
Returning Officer of the election Mohd Mushahid told PTI that BJP's Manvendra Singh bagged 280 votes while his rival from the Samajwadi Party, Ram Jatan Rajbhar, got 115 votes
As many as 396 MLAs on Monday cast their votes in the bypoll to two vacant seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council for which both the ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party have fielded candidates.
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