UP CM accuses Congress of turning a blind eye to terror attacks
The CM accused the Congress and I.N.D.I.A. bloc members of betraying the country by presenting a deceitful manifesto.
The counting of votes for three Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar began at 8 am on Wednesday, officials said.
The bypolls for the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh and three seats in Bihar – Lok Sabha seat of Araria and Jehanabad, Bhabua assembly seats — were held on March 11.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who vacated the Gorakhpur seat after his elevation as the Chief Minister, had held it since 1998. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Upendra Dutt Shukla is in the fray for the seat this time.
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Phulpur was represented by the present Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya before his election to the Legislative Council.
In Bihar, much is at stake for both ruling BJP-led NDA and opposition Grand Alliance comprising RJD, Congress and HAM-S, barely a year ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Both National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Grand Alliance are using the bypolls as an opportunity to prove their superiority over the other in terms of popularity among the masses.
While the NDA leaders are confident that they will win all the three seats, the Grand Alliance leaders have repeatedly claimed to pull out victory even in the absence of their star campaigner and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad — behind bars in connection with two fodder scam cases.
The bypolls to Jehanabad and Bhabua assembly seats are being held following the death of sitting legislators from the RJD and the BJP, respectively. The Araria Lok Sabha seat became vacant after the death last year of Mohammad Taslimuddin, the sitting RJD MP.
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