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BJP wins 33 out of 36 seats in UP Legislative Council poll

| @indiablooms | Apr 13, 2022, at 07:08 am

Lucknow/UNI: Bharatiya Janata Party won 33 out of 36 seats of local body constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls as per the results declared by the Election Commission after counting for the 27 seats on Tuesday.

Two seats have been won by the independent candidates and one by Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik).

The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) announced the results after counting was over on all 27 seats in the evening.

It may be noted that the BJP candidates have already won unopposed on nine seats. In the initial trends of counting, the majority of the BJP candidates took a decisive lead. By winning 33 out of 36 seats BJP has also gained majority in the upper house of state legislature.

With the win, BJP has 66 MLCs in the house of 100 members.

BJP candidates who won the election, include Ram Chandra Pradhan on Azamgarh-Mau seat, Pragya Tripathi on Bahraich-Shravasti seat, Dinesh Pratap Singh on Rae Bareli seat, Dr Ratan Pal Singh on Deoria seat, Angad Kumar Singh on Barabanki seat, Ravi Shankar Singh alias Pappu Bhaiyya on Ballia seat, Dr KP Srivastava on Allahabad seat, Dharmendra Kumar Bharadwaj on Meerut-Ghaziabad seat and Pawan Kumar Singh on the Sitapur seat.

BJP nominees Satya Pal Singh won on Moradabad-Bijnor seat, Kunwar Maharaj Singh Rampur-Bareilly seat, Dr Sudhir Gupta on Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur seat, Shailendra Pratap Singh on Sultanpur seat, Awadhesh Kumar Singh alias Manju Singh on Gonda seat, Hariom Pandey on Faizabad seat, Subhash Chandra alias Subhash Yaduvansh on Basti-Siddharth Nagar seat, CP Chand on Gorakhpur-Maharajganj seat and Vishal Singh Chanchal on Ghazipur seat.

In addition to this BJP candidates Brijesh Kumar Singh "Princu' won on Jaunpur seat, Rama Niranjan on Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur seat, Avinash Singh Chauhan on Kanpur-Fatehpur seat, Pranshu Dutt Dwivedi on Etawah-Farrukhabad seat, Vijay Shivhare on Agra-Firozabad seat and Vandana Verma on Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur seat.

Among independents Vikrant Singh Rishu won on Mau-Azamgarh seat and Annapurna Singh on Varanasi seat. Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) candidate Akshay Pratap Singh alias Gopalji won from Pratapgarh seat.

BJP candidates, who won unopposed, include Shyam Narain Singh on Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Vagish Pathak from Badaun, Ashok Kumar from Hardoi, Rishi Pal Singh on Aligarh-Hathras, Anup Kumar Gupta on Khiri, Ashish Kumar Yadav and Om Prakash on two seats of Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri, Narendra Singh Bhati on Bulandshahr and Jitendra Singh on Banda-Hamirpur seat.

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