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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 <br>

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Voting begins in 4 LS, 10 assembly seats; high stake Kairana up for grabs

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  1. Voting begins in 4 LS, 10 assembly seats; high stake Kairana up for grabs 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.

  2. 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, by-elections 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: 1) A dress rehearsal for a united Opposition taking on PM Modi: The Kairana bypoll is seeing a joint Opposition going up against the ruling BJP. Due to the political importance of UP, the bypoll has virtually assumed the dimensions of a strategic battle in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Opposition is hoping that they could possibly repeat the success of the Gorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls by consolidating the anti-BJP vote. In a boost to Opposition unity, the Lok Dal candidate, Kanwar Hasan, withdrew from the contest and announced his support for the RLD candidate. 2) BJP taking no chances in Kairana; ministers in campaign fray: After the drubbing in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls, the BJP is making extra efforts to try and retain the Kairana constituency. Apart from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, at least five others ministers campaigned in Kairana for the party candidate. They include Dharam Singh Saini (minister of state for Ayush), Suresh Rana (Sugarcane Development), Anupama Jaiswal (Basic Education), Surya Pratap Shahi (Agriculture), and Laxmi Narayan (Religious Affairs, Culture, Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj).

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