Kairana Lok Sabha Polls: As the electoral battle intensifies, the Kairana Lok Sabha seat emerges as a battleground where local concerns and evolving alliances have the potential to reshape electoral outcomes
Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022: Election to the 403 assembly seats in India’s most populous state are scheduled to be held from February 10 to March 7.
In the 2014 elections, BJP had won from Western UP with a huge margin, mainly because of sharp polarization of the voterbase in the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
In 2017, Mriganka Singh had lost the from the Kairana assembly constituency to an SP candidate.
The winning margin of Tabassum Begum, the joint opposition candidate fielded by the RLD in Kairana Lok Sabha seat, was 44,618 votes over Mriganka Singh of the BJP.
The counting of votes for the Noorpur assembly constituency in UP will also be taken up tomorrow.
The EC agreed to the repolling recommendation made by a Returning Officer and decided to conduct them on Wednesday between 7 am and 6 pm. Most of these 73 booths are in Nakud and Gangoi Assembly constituencies. And five of them in Shamli.
Both BJP and RLD are taking efforts to woo the Jat community
"Upchunav mein jagah jagah se EVM kharab hone ki khabrein aa rahi hain, lekin phir bhi apne matadhikar ke liye zaroor jayen aur apna kartavya nibhayan," Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Twitter.
The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Sunday announced that it would contest the May 28 Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll and hoped to get the "full support" of other like-minded, non-BJP parties
Kairana a town in Uttar Pradesh now finds itself at the centre of communal politics. It had witnessed an exodus of thousands of families after the Muzzafarnagar riots in 2013.
The battle for Uttar Pradesh has hit fever pitch. The small town of Kairana is a hot-bed of political activity. BJP is claiming a "hindu exodus" but there is no hard evidence.