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SP MLAs. . Lone BSP MLA, Uma Shankar Singh, too, voted in favour of BJP candidates - a sharp departure from the past when the Mayawati-led outfit preferred to abstain from voting...
The development was perceived as a blow to INDIA bloc, which has been positioning itself as a potent rival of BJP in LS polls due soon...
Eight BJP candidates, who had the support of 287 MLAs before voting started - including nine of RLD and two of Raja Bhaiyya's Jansatta Dal Lok Tantrik - managed to get 294 votes, while the SP-Congress combine, which had a cumulative strength of 108, got 100 votes..
The victorious candidates included former Congress MP RPN Singh, former Agra mayor Navin Jain, two former UP MLAs - Sangeeta Balwant & Sadhna Singh, BJPspokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, former Mathura MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, UP BJP state general secretary Amar Pal Maurya and former MP Sanjay Seth, who defected from SP in 2019...
Everyone knows that BJP can resort to any tactic to win an election," said Akhilesh, asserting that the party would take strict action against all the MLAs who cross-voted...
