After the drubbing in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls, the BJP is making extra efforts to try and retain the Kairana constituency. Catch all the live updates here.
Voting started at 7 am on Monday for four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats, including in Kairana in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh.
Besides Kairana in Western
Uttar Pradesh, by-elections are being held in the Bhandara-Gondiya
and Palghar parliamentary constituencies in Maharashtra and the
Nagaland Lok Sabha seat.
The Kairana
Lok Sabha constituency fell vacant after the death of Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) MP Hukum Singh, whose daughter Mriganka Singh is
now the party's candidate.
She is fighting against
Rashtriya Lok Dal's (RLD's) Tabassum Hasan, who is backed by a united
Opposition, including the Congress, the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
In the two Lok Sabha seats
that are going to the bypolls
in Maharashtra, all four major parties -- the Congress, BJP, Shiv
Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) -- are going all out as
these bypolls are being considered as crucial in the run-up to the
General elections in 2019.
The Shiv Sena has fielded
late BJP MP Chintaman Wanaga's son Shriniwas Wanaga in Palghar, much
to the dislike of the saffron party, which has in-turn nominated
Congress deserter Rajendra Gavit.
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