Kairana by-election results will serve as a test case for a united Opposition against the PM Narendra Modi-led BJP. Catch all the live updates here.
Bypoll
results 2018 will be out in a
few hours as counting of votes for by-elections to four Lok Sabha
seats and 10 Assembly constituencies will be held on Thursday.
The Lok Sabha seats that
went to polls are Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra, the
politically-crucial Kairana Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh,
and the Nagaland parliamentary constituency.
Further, by-elections were
held in the Legislative Assemblies of Shahkot (Punjab), Tharali
(Uttarakhand), Ampati (Meghalaya), Chengannur (Kerala), Jokihat
(Bihar), Gomia (Jharkhand), Silli (Jharkhand), Maheshtala (West
Bengal), Noorpur (Uttar Pradesh), and Palus Kadegaon (Maharashtra).
The Kairana
results , in particular, will also serve as a test case for a
united Opposition against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Kairana bypoll is also significant
as it will test the ruling BJP's popularity in the electorally
crucial state of Uttar Pradesh a year ahead of the 2019 general
elections.
In Kairana, BJP's Mriganka
Singh is fighting against Rashtriya Lok Dal's (RLD's) Tabassum Hasan,
who is supported by the Congress, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
Most importantly, the
outcome in Kairana will either see the BJP break its losing streak
this year in Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypolls or hand over a hat-trick
to the Opposition.
The bye-elections were
marred by complaints of malfunctioning electronic voting machines
(EVMs), which the Election Commission (EC) had to replace at certain
places. Subsequently, repolling was held at several booths on
Wednesday.
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