On the day of the first phase of polling for the Assembly , the BJP experienced some ‘acche din’ as it won three of the five UP legislative Council seats in the biennial elections held on February 3.
As per Election Commission, BJP candidates won the seats of Gorakhpur-Faizabad graduate constituency, Bareilly-Moradabad graduate constituency and Kanpur graduate constituencies of the Upper House of the UP legislature. Independents have won the Jhansi and Kanpur teachers constituencies in this elections. The counting of votes started on Friday morning where ballot papers were used.
In Gorakhpur- Faizabad graduate seat, BJP’s Devendra Pratap Singh defeated Sanjay Tripathi of Samajwadi Party and wrested the seat from the ruling Party. Singh is a sitting SP MlC and defected to the BJP before elections.
In Bareilly-Moradabad graduate seat, Dr Jaipal Singh of the BJP retained the seat by defeating Renu Mishra of Samajwadi Party by around 25,000 first preference votes. In Kanpur graduate seat BJP’s Arun Pathak defeated Manvendra Singh of Samajwadi Party.
In the two teacher’s constituencies, Suresh Kumar Tripathi won the Jhansi seat by defeating Ashok Kumar while in Kanpur seat Rajbahadur Singh Chandel defeated Hemraj Singh by around 800 votes.
Meanwhile, victory in Council elections has given an opportunity to rejoice for the BJP. State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said in lucknow on Saturday that it was just the beginning before the big event to be held on March 11 when results of the Assembly polls will be declared.
Pathajk said that the people from east UP in Gorakhpur to Moradabad in west UP, have extended their support to the BJP and this will be repeated in the Assembly polls too.
Eight members to the legislative Council are nominated by the Governor on recommendation of the Chief Minister and the tenure of each member is six years.