This time, the Samajwadi Party has fielded Anuradha Chauhan from the seat and Apna Dal (Sonelal) has nominated Shafeek Ahmed Ansari. In the 2022 UP Assembly election, Abdullah Azam Khan had defeated Apna Dal (Sonelal)’s Haidar Ali Khan by a margin of over 61,000 votes. The Samajwadi Party is going all out to defend its last citadel in Rampur while the ruling BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) is leaving no stone unturned to breach this fortress especially after the saffron party managed to snatch the Rampur assembly constituency as well as the Rampur parliamentary constituency both of which were Azam Khan’s stronghold.Īzam Khan himself was disqualified from the Assembly last year after a court sentenced him to three years in jail in a hate speech case. In 2020, Allahabad High Court set aside his election for hiding his age in the affidavit. The Swar assembly seat was declared vacant on February 13 after a Moradabad court sentenced Abdullah Azam Khan to two years in jail in a 15-year-old case. The focus of the bypolls, however, will be on Swar which was previously represented by Abdullah Azam Khan, the son of senior SP leader Azam Khan. The Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party has decided to sit out the by-elections, the Congress has fielded its candidate only in Chhanbey and the political leaders are either campaigning in Karnataka or busy with the urban local bodies elections of Uttar Pradesh.Īs such, the hustings for bypolls to the two seats in Rampur and Mirzapur districts have been lacklustre. The by-election to Swar and Chhanbey Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday will witness a direct contest between the ruling coalition and the opposition Samajwadi Party with the victor getting a moral boost before next year’s Lok Sabha polls.
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