Mainpuri bypolls: Voter turnout 7.08 pc till 9 am

The voter turnout in Uttar Pradeshs Mainpuri Lok Sabha Assembly Seat was recorded at 708 per cent till 9 am on Monday the Election Commission of India saidPolling in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency was mandated following the demise of the sitting MP and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav The party has fielded his daughterinlaw and wife of Akhilesh Yadav Dimple Yadav She is pitted against BJPs former MP Raghuraj Singh ShakyaSamajwadi Party patron Late Mulayam Singh Yadavs brother Abhay Ram Yadav cast his vote at Abhinav Vidyalaya in Saifai Etawah and said that there is no competition with any political partySP is going to win by a huge margin There is no competition with any other political party he saidSamajwadi Party SP leaders earlier in the morning thronged to cast their votes claiming that the party candidate Dimple Yadav will win with three times more votes than what Mulayam Singh Yadav garneredAlso read 7 dead as truck crushes bystanders in MPs Ratlam exgratia announcedSP MP Ram Gopal Yadav cast his vote in Etawahs Saifai Dimple Yadav partys candidate for the byelection will win with three times more votes than what Netaji Mulayam Singh Yadav used to get he saidRam Gopal Yadav further alleged that the BJP goons had come to the powerhouse of Mainpuri and pushed the SPs agentsIn Mainpuri they werent allowing agents at booths 141 142 143 144 145 146 We spoke to Returning Officer Ill find out if it was later allowed Similarly BJP goons came to a powerhouse of Mainpuri in an inebriated state amp pushed our agent out The police and administration are of no help Yadav allegedPoliceadmin are manipulating EC had directed that deployment for election duties be randomised But when polling parties arrived around 2000 of the staff were stopped and held back as reserves as they had Yadav surname They forget that not only Yadavs but everyone votes for SP Yadav further allegedParty chief Akhilesh Yadav and his wife and Mainpuri seat candidate Dimple Yadav will also cast their votes later in the day in SaifaiVoting for the byelections for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and six assembly seats in Bihar Chhattisgarh Odisha Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh began today at 7 am and the polling will end at 6 pmThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever