The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to field Chandrabhan Paswan as its candidate for Milkipur assembly bypoll.
This assembly seat is one of the assembly segments of Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency in Ayodhya district.
The bypoll was necessitated after Awadhesh Prasad, a senior leader of Samajwadi Party, resigned the Milkipur seat after being elected to Lok Sabha from Faizabad in the June 2024 general elections. The SP has decided to field Awadhesh’s son Ajeet from this seat in the bypoll.
The Milkipur bypoll has become a battle of prestige for the BJP with Chief minister Yogi Adityanath taking charge of the February 5 by-election. The saffron party plans to go all out to wrest this assembly seat from its arch rival SP.
The Milkipur bypoll was to be held earlier along with by-elections for nine other assembly seats in November 2024. But due to a pending court case, the Election Commission deferred the Milkipur bypoll.
Awadhesh Prasad had won the seat with 47.99 per cent votes in the 2022 UP assembly election, followed by BJP’s Baba Gorakhnath who secured 41.83 per cent votes. Congress candidate Brijesh Kumar had polled 1.46 per cent votes. Awadhesh Prasad had also won this assembly seat in the 2012 assembly election.
