Voting Begins For Bypoll In Milkipur Meeting Constituency | India Information

Voting Begins For Bypoll In Milkipur Meeting Constituency | India Information

Milkipur Bypolls: Voting for the bypoll in Milkipur Meeting constituency in Uttar Pradesh started on Wednesday morning.

The destiny of 10 candidates within the fray might be determined by the Scheduled Castes (SC)-reserved constituency’s 3,70,829 voters however the principle contest is anticipated to be between Samajwadi Celebration’s Ajit Prasad and the BJP’s Chandrabhanu Paswan.

The stakes within the bypoll in Milkipur, which is in Ayodhya district, had been raised by SP’s Awadhesh Prasad’s shock win from Faizabad in final 12 months’s Lok Sabha polls that got here simply months after the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Voting began at 7 am and can proceed until 5 pm, officers stated. There are 255 polling centres and 414 polling stations for the election.

“Webcasting might be carried out at 210 polling stations and videography at 25 stations. Micro-observers are deployed at 71 polling centres, with 9 flying squads, 9 static surveillance groups, six video surveillance groups, two tremendous zonal magistrates, 4 zonal magistrates and 41 sector magistrates. Voting might be carried out with the help of civil police, PAC, and paramilitary forces,” they stated.

Greater than 1.93 lakh male voters, and over 1.78 lakh feminine voters and eight third-gender persons are registered to vote for the bypoll. There are 4,811 first-time voters within the meeting constituency.

Whereas BSP is not contesting the bypoll, the Congress is backing its alliance associate SP on the seat. Aazad Samaj Celebration (Kanshi Ram) has additionally fielded a candidate from the seat.

The bypoll was necessitated when SP chief Awadhesh Prasad vacated the Milkipur seat after profitable the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Now, even because the SP is trying to retain the seat, the BJP sees the election as a chance to avenge its loss in Faizabad. Within the 2022 UP Meeting polls, Milkipur was the one meeting seat BJP misplaced in Ayodhya district.

The 2 events had additionally despatched out high leaders to marketing campaign for the bypoll.

Apart from the chief minister, UP’s two deputy Chief Ministers — Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak — additionally campaigned for the BJP candidate. The SP despatched its MP from Mainpuri and Akhilesh Yadav’s spouse, Dimple Yadav, for a roadshow in Milkipur.

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