MODI WAVE SUBSIDED? SP BAGS 3 OUT OF 11 SEATS, BJP GETS 1; COUNTING IN PROCES
16-9-2014 11.55AM IST
Medhaj News: The counting of votes for 11 Assembly and lone Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat began amid elaborate security arrangements in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning.
In Manipuri Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Pratap Singh is leading by 1 lakh votes. Out of 11 seats, BJP is leading in just two and Samajwadi Party is ahead in 9 seats.
After 15th round of counting in Charkhari, SP candidate Kaptan Singh is ahead by 26,162 votes. Also SP candidate Ruchi Vira is leading by 5,000 votes against BJP candidate in Bijnor after 9th round of counting.
In Saharanpur it is again SP candidate Sanjay Garg who is ahead by 10,558 votes after 11th round of counting. Also in Charkhari SP candidate Kaptan Singh is leading by 23,699 votes after 13 round of counting.
The stakes are high for the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) as of now. According to a report conducted by Medhaj news, BJP would grab seven seats and it would serve as a further push to the BJP for its 2017 fortunes, more so after the party's historic performance in general elections from Uttar Pradesh. For SP it would be four seats after Lok Sabha rout.
In Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, the by-poll results would script a history of sorts, irrespective of who wins. For the BJP a win here would be first since 1952 when the first elections were held. And for SP, a win here would be unparalleled in the sense that three generations of a political family will be sitting together in the house, in Lok Sabha history. SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's grand nephew Tej Pratap Singh Yadav is contesting against BJP's Prem Shakya for the hitherto Yadav clan turf-Mainpuri-vacated by Mulayam after he decided to retain Azamgarh which he also won in 2014 general elections.
Around 53 % votes were polled in the bye-elections to 11 Assembly seats and 56.4 % in the Yadav clan stronghold Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh on September 13. As many as 118 candidates were in the fray for 11 Assembly seats which included communally sensitive seats of Saharanpur Nagar, Thakurdwara and Bijnore in western UP, while 12, including Tej Pratap Singh Yadav-grand nephew of SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, contested for Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat.