UP bypoll: BSP wrests Suar Tanda, SP retains Gunnaur assembly seat

Lucknow, Sep 3(UNI) The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party and the main Opposition Samajwadi Party have won one assembly seat each in the bypolls held on August 31.

While the BSP wrested the Suar Tanda seat in Rampur district from the Samajwadi Party, the opposition party managed to retain the Gunnaur seat.

In the Gunnaur seat, represented by former Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in his last tenure, SP candidate Pradeep Yadav defeated his nearest BSP nominee Deepak Yadav by over 13,000 votes.

In the last assembly polls, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav had won the seat by a margin of 31,647 votes.

BSP candidate Kazim Ali defeated his nearest BJP rival Shiv Bahadur Saxena by over 49,000 votes. The SP candidate managed the third spot.

In the last assembly elections, Mr Ali who was a Samajwadi Party candidate, had won the seat by over 14,000 votes.

The bypoll was necessitated following Mr Ali's resignation from the SP. He later joined the BSP.

With this win the BSP's strength in the assembly rose to 210 in the 403 member house while the strength of the SP shot up to 95.

In Farukhabad, state minister Anant Mishra was leading by a comfortable margin against his nearest rival Vijay Singh (Cong).

UNI