Lucknow. Like the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has played its sting in the MLC elections too. The Bharatiya Janata Party captured 4 out of 5 seats in the MLC elections under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath. While one seat is occupied by an independent. Despite all the claims, the hopes of the Samajwadi Party have been dashed. The SP has not even been able to open its account in this election. On January 30, votes were cast for MLC elections in 39 districts of UP. The counting of votes took place on 2 February. In this election, BJP’s Jaipal Singh Vyas has scored a hat-trick on the Bareilly-Moradabad divisional seat. On the other hand, BJP’s Arunpathak has won the Unnao-Kanpur graduate MLC seat. BJP’s Babulal Tiwari has been declared victorious in Jhansi-Allahabad Teacher’s MLC seat while BJP’s Devendra Pratap Singh has been declared victorious in Gorakhpur-Faizabad Graduate’s MLC seat. On the other hand, independent Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel has won the Kanpur teacher block MLC election.
Let us inform you that Devendra Pratap Singh has won by 17455 votes in the Gorakhpur-Faizabad block graduate MLC election. The counting of votes took place at the Faculty of Commerce campus of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University. After polling in 17 districts of the region in the Gorakhpur-Faizabad segment graduate MLC elections, the ballot boxes were kept in the strongroom under security cover here. The result came at 6:30 am on Friday after the counting of votes lasted for almost 22 hours. After the final count, BJP candidate Devendra Pratap Singh got 51699 votes.
On the other hand, if we talk about the second place, then SP’s Karuna Kant Maurya got 34244 votes. Bareilly-Moradabad block graduate MLC seat, BJP candidate Jaipal Singh Busy has scored a hat-trick by winning for the third time. Jaipal Singh defeated Shiv Pratap Singh of SP by 51,257 votes. He got a total of 66,179 votes while SP’s Shiv Pratap Singh Yadav got 14,922 votes. The final result came after the 7th round at 3:40 am. 92,687 voters exercised their franchise in the polls held on 30 January. Voting was held on January 30 for five seats of teacher and graduate quota in the UP Legislative Council. A total of 56.53 percent votes were cast in it. Polling was conducted peacefully at 1064 polling stations in 39 districts. The highest polling of 75.86 percent was held in Allahabad-Jhansi section teacher seat. The Kanpur block had the lowest voter turnout of 40.93 per cent in the graduate seat. A total of 63 candidates were in the fray on five seats.