The by-elections being held to nine assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh is being seen as a litmus test for the future assembly elections to be held in 2027. With Congress out of the fray, it is now directly linked to the prestige of SP-BJP stalwarts in this by-election.
The Congress faces the task of defending six of the seven seats going to the polls next month, while the BJP aims to win back only one seat: Salumbar (ST).
MP Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav, State BJP Chief V D Sharma, and other senior BJP leaders reached Vijaypur the Morena district to accompany Ramniwas Rawat during his nomination filing process.
The election process for the November 13 by-polls in seven seats of the Rajasthan State Assembly began on Friday with the issuance of the requisite notification by the Election Commission.
Being held without PM in the forefront, the result of the by-elections to the Bardinath and Manglaur constituencies will reflect the performance of governance of the ruling BJP.
These elections were necessitated after the State Legislative Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania accepted the resignation of the three independent MLAs, K L Thakur of Nalagarh, Hoshyar Singh of Dehra, and Ashish Sharma of Hamirpur on June 3.
PM Modi urged people to come out and vote in large numbers as voting for`byelections in Punjab , UP, Odisha and Meghalaya commenced.
The BJP won a spectacular victory in Gujarat and is the only party other than the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to have won seven straight Assembly elections in a state.
Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav is leading in Mainpuri with a comfortable lead of over one lakh votes.
The SP chief, while addressing Ex-Servicemen Conference in poll-bound Mainpuri asserted that no one was given a job after the recruitment rally under the scheme in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad.
