UP bypoll results: 3-time ex-MLA husband in jail, SP candidate Naseem Solanki comes out winner riding on ‘sympathy wave’

Contesting her archetypal Assembly election, Naseem relied heavy connected her family’s bequest to unafraid votes. During her campaign, she often broke down astatine rallies, recounting her family’s “struggles” and appealed to voters to basal by them “during their clip of need”.

After the announcement of the results connected Saturday, she said, “The radical of Sisamau person delivered justness to me. This is simply a triumph for justice.”

She maintained a dependable pb passim the counting process, with Awasthi and BSP campaigner Virendra Kumar trailing astatine 2nd and 3rd positions. By the eighth circular of the 20 rounds of counting, Naseem was up with 28,315 votes. BSP’s Kumar managed to unafraid lone 1,410 votes.

Irfan Solanki, presently lodged successful the Maharajganj territory jail, represented Sisamau for 3 consecutive presumption earlier losing his Assembly rank pursuing his conviction. In June, a tribunal sentenced Solanki, his younger member Rizwan Solanki, and 3 others to 7 years successful situation for allegedly harassing a pistillate and mounting her location connected occurrence to drawback her onshore successful Kanpur’s Jajmau country successful 2022.

Naseem expressed her gratitude, stating that the result reflected the unwavering enactment of her household and the radical of Sisamau, whom she considers portion of her “extended family”.

Besides, she received bully enactment from elder SP leaders, including enactment main Akhilesh Yadav and his woman Dimple Yadav.

During the campaigning, Dimple led a roadshow, portion Akhilesh addressed a rally successful her support. Naseem’s run besides drew important attraction owed to a contention surrounding her sojourn to the Balkhandeshwar temple, wherever she offered prayers. This drew disapproval from Muslim spiritual leaders, portion temple priests conducted a purification ritual utilizing Ganga water.

On the different hand, the BJP, determined to reclaim the seat, launched an assertive run to antagonistic Naseem’s affectional appeals. The party’s elder leaders, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, held rallies to backmost Suresh Awasthi, a salient Brahmin leader.