BJP candidate from Nighasan, the place the Lakhimpur Kheri violence had taken place in October, is main within the elections, counting of which is underway. BJP`s sitting MLA Shashank Verma had polled 53,785 votes over his nearest rival RS Kushwaha of the Samajwadi Celebration (SP), who received 33,810 votes until 1.15 pm, in keeping with the Election Fee.
The BJP was main in all of the eight Meeting seats within the Lakhimpur Kheri district with the SP showing in rivalry solely in Kasta, the place the margin was lower than 2,000 votes. Lakhimpur Kheri had been one of many key assault factors of the opposition events such because the SP, Bahujan Samaj Celebration and Congress towards the BJP within the run-up to the polls. Eight folks, together with 4 farmers, have been killed in a violence that erupted within the Tikunia space of the district on October 3 final 12 months.
Union Minister Ajay Mishra`s son Ashish Mishra is among the key accused in a case associated to the killing of farmers. He was granted bail by the state excessive court docket final month.
Ajay Mishra, although a central minister, was not a part of the BJP`s star campaigner listing in Uttar Pradesh and was much less seen within the occasion`s public reachout programmes in Lakhimpur Kheri, his native district. Amid continued assaults on the BJP over the October violence, Mishra had even skipped rallies of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath within the district.
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