Amidst the incidents of violence, abduction and intimidation and horse trading the election of the block pramukh was completed in 73 districts.
Election in Allahabad and Chitrakoot districts will be held on February 10 while the elections were not held in Gautam Buddh nagar district as per the orders of the Allahabad high court.
Out of the total 816 development blocks where elections were held on Sunday the State Election commission has so far declared results of over 800 blocks including the 385 elected unopposed and remaining results will be declared tonight.
Out of the total 816 blocks where the election was held on Sunday, as many as 385 candidates, belonging to the ruling Samajwadi party have already been declared elected unopposed. On Sunday polling was held for 431 seats of block pramukh where 1,007 candidates were in the fray and 41,533 members of the block development committee voted in the election. In Amroha district all the six block pramukh were elected unopposed.
Samawadi Party claimed that the results of the election of block pramukh have once again established the pre eminent position of the party in the state. SP spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary said here on Sunday that after winning 60 out of total 74 seats of district panchyat chairman, the party has won 80 percent seats of the block pramukh. N He said so far out of 791 seats 623 seats have been won by the SP. The SP leader also expressed his gratitude to the people of the state for reposing their trust in the ruling party candidates. SP claimed that for 816 seats of block pramukh it had fielded 775 candidates.
Samajwadi party sources said its candidates won 10 out of 12 block pramukh seats in Mirzapur, all 8 blocks in Jhansi, all nine in Jalaun, 15 out of 17 blocks in Pratapgarh district, all 8 seats in lucknow, 7 out of 8 seats in Sonebhadra, 13 out of 15 seats in Gonda district, all 13 sears in Amethi district, 13 seats out of total 19 seats in Sitapur, six out of 7 seats in hamirpur, 14 out of q5 seats in Bareilly.
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, SP claimed that its candidates won in six out of total 8 seats of block pramukh while one was won by BJP candidate and one independent.
The SP won all the 7 seats in Pilibhit district.
In Akbarpur block of Ambedkar ngar district supporters of the samajwadi party and bahujan Samaj party clashed near the office of the ruling party. The BSP cadres allegedly raided the office of the SP, on the information that some block development committee were abducted and locked inside the office of the Samajwadi party. The situation was brought under control by the police.
In Mawana block of Meerut a block development committee (BDC) member was alleged abducted by the Samajwadi Party leader. In Hapur district police recovered Rs 8 lakh cash from the vehicle of a candidate for block pramukh. Two BDC members were also arrested by the police. In Fatehabad block of Agra, police had to lath charge to control the unruly situation following the clash among the supporters of the rival candidates.
Incident of group clash was also reported from Ghatampur block in Kanpur dehat district where the opposition party candidates alleged that the police was openly aiding and abetting the forcible voting in favour of the Samajwadi party candidate. The voting was held for few hours and it later resumed and process was completed.
In Gonda district police had to fire in air to bring the situation under control following the group clash among the supporters of the rival candidates. In farrukhabad district supporters of the Samawjadi Party candidate fired on his rivals. However no one was injured in the incident.
In Bhadoi district, son of Rangnath Mishra, former minister and senior BSP leader, Brij Mohan won the election from Aurai block.