Rampur By Election Result: BJP’s Akash Saxena Defeats Samajwadi Party’s Asim Raja
Rampur Sadar Bypoll Result: Bypoll to the Rampur Sadar seat, considered an Azam Khan stronghold, was necessitated after the SP leader was sentenced to three years in jail in a hate speech case, and subsequently disqualified as MLA.
Rampur Sadar By Election Result: The BJP on Thursday won the Rampur Sadar assembly seat for the first time as its candidate Akash Saxena defeated his nearest Samajwadi Party rival Asim Raja. Bypoll to the Rampur Sadar seat, considered an Azam Khan stronghold, was necessitated after the SP leader was sentenced to three years in jail in a hate speech case, and subsequently disqualified as MLA.
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Saxena, who won by a margin of 33,702 votes, has been handed over the winners certificate by the Returning officer. This is the first time the BJP has won the Rampur Sadar assembly seat.
The bypoll was held on December 5. Rampur Sadar, which has a sizeable Muslim population, has witnessed low voter turnout with the segment registering around 33.94 per cent turnout by 6 pm.
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Rampur Sadar Assembly seat (37-Rampur) in Uttar Pradesh went for by-polls on Monday (December 5).
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Samajwadi Party’s Mohd Asim Raja leads with5,767 votes in second round
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SP’s Asim Raja is leading by a wafer thin margin of just over 120 votes against BJP candidate Akash Saxena.
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Counting of votes for the high-profile Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, Rampur and Khatauli seats in Uttar Pradesh began at 8am.
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