Priyanka Gandhi leads in Wayanad, BJP ahead in Palakkad Assembly seat
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her poll debut from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, was leading in the early trends on Saturday.
Sitting MP and alliance candidate Tabassum Hasan and Congress candidate Harendra Malik filed their nominations from Kairana Lok Sabha seat on Friday while the BJP is yet to announce its candidate from here.
Tabassum Hasan filed her nomination at Shamli amid tight security. She had won the by-election on the Kairana seat after the death of BJP MP Hukum Singh on an RLD ticket and was supported by the BSP, SP and Congress. Now, as an alliance candidate, Tabassum would be contesting from here on an SP ticket.
Congress candidate and former MP Harendra Malik was the first to file his nomination in Shamli from Kairana seat on Friday. Shortly after filing his nomination, Malik said that he is committed to working for the issues of farmers and unemployment. Congress has always been committed to development and interests of the people, he said.
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Malik is a senior and influential leader of Congress from the area and was also an MP from Muzaffarnagar. He is believed to have a good following amongst the Jat community in the constituency and comes across as a candidate with a “clean image.”
The election on the Kairana seat would be held in the first phase on April 11.
Kairana Lok Sabha seat was believed to be the citadel of late BJP MP Hukum Singh but after his death last year his daughter Mriganka Singh lost the by-election to alliance candidate Tabassum Hasan who won by a margin of over 44,000 votes.
Mriganka not only lost this election in spite of the sympathy wave but she had also lost the 2017 assembly election from Kairana when her father was the MP from here. It is believed that the BJP leadership does not want to take any chances and wants to field a winnable candidate from Kairana and that is why no announcement has been made so far.
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