The counting began at 8 am to decide the fate of the candidates contesting the polls, among whom all eyes will be on the wife of Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav, who is contesting from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, necessitated by the demise of Samajwadi Party veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav in O
The counting of votes for by-elections in six Assembly constituencies in five states including the high-state Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh will be held on Thursday.
As the voting for the Mainpuri Parliamentary constituency culminated today the total voter turnout was recorded at 51.89 per cent till 5 pm in the ongoing by-poll elections.
Polling in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency was mandated following the demise of the sitting MP and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav. The party has fielded his daughter-in-law and wife of Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav. She is pitted against BJP's former MP Ragh
Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav for the Lok Sabha Assembly Seat of Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri exuded confidence in marking her victory at the party's stronghold on Monday.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday cast his vote for the ongoing election at the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat at Abhinav Vidyalaya in Saifai in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah.
The voter turnout in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri Lok Sabha Assembly Seat was recorded 7.08 per cent till 9 am on Monday, the Election Commission of India said.
Voting for the by-elections for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and six assembly seats in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh began today at 7 am.
"This is the Lok Sabha constituency where Mayawati's BSP's vote bank will decide who will become the MP in the middle of the fight between BJP and SP! Actually, in Mainpuri more than 1.25 lakh votes belong to the Jatav community and more than seventy thousand votes belong to different castes
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya attacked Former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav saying that it will take him "10 lives" to be like his 'father'.