Voting begins in 4 LS, 10 assembly seats; high stake Kairana up for grabs
Voting begins in 4 LS, 10 assembly seats; high stake Kairana up for grabs on Business Standard. After the drubbing in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls, the BJP is making extra efforts to try and retain the Kairana constituency. Catch all the live updates here
Latest News Kairana bypoll, kairana by election, kairana up chunav, kairana bypoll date, kairana lok sabha, hukum singh kairana, bypolls, up bypolls, bypolls results live, bypolls results, maharashtra bypolls, RLD candidate, BJP candidate kairana, kairana Voting started at 7 am on Monday for four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats, including in Kairana in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh. Besides Kairana in Western Uttar Pradesh, byelections are being held in the Bhandara-Gondiya and Palghar parliamentary constituencies in Maharashtra and the Nagaland Lok Sabha seat. The Kairana Lok Sabha constituency fell vacant after the death of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Hukum Singh, whose daughter Mriganka Singh is now the party's candidate. She is fighting against Rashtriya Lok Dal's (RLD's) Tabassum Hasan, who is backed by a united Opposition, including the Congress, the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). In the two Lok Sabha seats that are going to the bypolls in Maharashtra, all four major parties -- the Congress, BJP, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) -- are going all out as these bypolls are
being considered as crucial in the run-up to the General elections in 2019. The Shiv Sena has fielded late BJP MP Chintaman Wanaga's son Shriniwas Wanaga in Palghar, much to the dislike of the saffron party, which has in-turn nominated Congress deserter Rajendra Gavit. Here are the top updates from the bypolls:
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