UP Assembly Bypolls 2024 Results: Counting for 9 seats will begin on Saturday from 8:00 am

UP Assembly Bypolls Results 2024: The Election Commission of India will start the counting of votes for the by-polls to nine Assembly segments in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, along with the counting of votes for the Assembly elections held in Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

According to details, the counting of votes will begin from 8 am on Saturday amid tight security arrangements, officials said.

The major contest in the nine Assembly segments of Uttar Pradesh is between the ruling BJP and the Congress-SP alliance.

The nine constituencies for which votes will be counted include — Meerapur, Kundarki, Sisamau, Katehari, Phulpur, Majhawan, Ghaziabad, Karhal and Khair.

UP by surveys 2024:

On November 20, polling took place amid SP allegations that local police prevented voters from reaching polling booths.

The ECI took action against five policemen while acting on a complaint from the SP.

Saturday’s results will determine the fate of 90 candidates, including the highest number of 14 nominees from Ghaziabad and the lowest number of five candidates each from Khair and Sisamau.

In the start of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls 2022, BJP won Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan and Khair seats while SP secured victories in Sisamau, Katehari, Karhal and Kundarki. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which was then an SP ally, won the Meerapur seat. The party has since switched sides and is now part of the BJP-led NDA.

In the current Assembly, BJP has 251 MLAs, followed by SP (105). BJP allies like Apna Dal (Sonelal), RLD, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) and NISHAD Party hold additional seats, while Congress and Jansatta Dal Loktantrik have two seats each and BSP has one.

Political tensions in UP:

Political tension ran high in the run-up to the counting as both the BJP and opposition parties accused each other of electoral malpractices.

SP president Akhilesh Yadav, on the eve of counting of votes, accused the BJP of rigging the election process and claimed that the saffron party’s tactics are increasingly being exposed.

Yadav said vigilance by supporters of INDIA’s opposition bloc exposed the BJP’s efforts to manipulate the electoral process, leading to a decline in the party’s support base.

“The manner in which our voters, workers, officials and media have responded to BJP’s electoral fraud is appreciated everywhere,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said in a press statement.

He added that BJP’s addiction to corruption, propaganda and manipulation is the reason why its support base is shrinking. He alleged that the BJP lures officials and leaders to indulge in corrupt practices, only to abandon them when things go wrong.

“BJP is not a party that protects people, it traps them,” he claimed, urging SP supporters to remain vigilant during the vote counting process. “We won morally. Only the official certificate is pending,” added Yadav.

Reacting to these allegations, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya dismissed the SP leaders’ allegations as baseless.

He took to X on Thursday, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya dismissed the SP leaders’ allegations as baseless.