Samajwadi Party candidate Naemul Hasan defeated his nearest rival Avni Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 5678 votes in the by election on Noorpur assembly seat of Bijnor district.
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Samajwadi Party candidate Naemul Hasan defeated his nearest rival Avni Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 5678 votes in the by election on Noorpur assembly seat of Bijnor district.
Hasan contested this election with the support of RLD, Congress and the BSP. He had taken a lead over the BJP candidate from the first round of counting.
He maintained his lead throughout the counting and finished with a victory margin of 5678 votes. Naemul got 94866 votes while Avni was restricted to 89188 votes only.
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Avni Singh was the wife of Lokendra Singh, the BJP MLA whose death in a car accident necessitated the bypoll.
The party gave ticket to his widow in the by-election eyeing for the sympathy votes. But it is evident after the result that the sympathy could not work in favour of the party candidate and the votes of the minorities were galvanised for Naemul Hasan, the alliance candidate.
Naresh Uttam Patel, the state president of Samajwadi Party has expressed happiness over the result in Noorpur and trends coming from Kairana, which, too, favour the alliance. He asserted that it is an indication for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
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