New Delhi. The trends that have emerged so far in the results of the by-elections held on Kundarki assembly seat of Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh are very shocking. This time, 11 Muslim candidates from SP, BSP and other parties and independent candidates had filed their nomination papers from Muslim dominated Kundarki assembly constituency. Amidst all this, BJP had given ticket to Ramveer Thakur, expressing confidence in the Hindu candidate. In the trends, Ramveer Thakur is leading by defeating all the candidates and his victory is considered almost certain.
According to the trends so far in Kundarki, BJP’s Ramveer Thakur is ahead by about 70 thousand votes while SP’s senior leader Haji Mohammad Rizwan has barely crossed the 10 thousand vote mark. SP candidate Mohammad Rizwan, who has been active in politics for almost 40 years, has earlier won the elections twice in a row in 2012 and 2017. On this seat, a total of 11 Muslim candidates including Rafatullah Jaan from BSP ticket, Hafiz Waris from Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM and Chand Babu from Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party were contesting the elections. Amidst all this, BJP used a very powerful strategy by giving ticket to the only Hindu candidate Ramveer Thakur.
In fact, due to Muslim candidates from other parties, the Muslim vote got divided while BJP’s Ramveer Thakur got the benefit of being the only Hindu candidate. The result of this was something that Akhilesh Yadav or Mayawati could not have even imagined. Ramveer Thakur is going to wave the saffron flag of BJP among 11 Muslim candidates in a Muslim dominated area. Seeing his lead of about 70 thousand votes, his victory is considered certain.
