BJP candidates Dinesh Kumar Goyal and Shrichand Sharma retained the Meerut graduates’ and teachers’ seats, respectively
UP MLC Polls: BJP secures 4 seats, SP wins in Varanasi and Agra: The elections for 11 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council saw a competitive split between the ruling BJP and Samajwadi Party. The BJP has retained four Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (MLC) seats, including both constituencies in Meerut, the Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ seat and the Lucknow Teachers’ seat. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has won the Varanasi and Agra Teachers’ constituencies, as counting for the 11 MLC seats continues.
BJP candidates Dinesh Kumar Goyal and Shrichand Sharma retained the Meerut graduates’ and teachers’ seats, respectively. District Information Officer Sumit Yadav confirmed that both had received their victory certificates.
Hari Singh Dhillon retained the Bareilly-Moradabad teachers’ constituency, while Umesh Dwivedi won another term from the Lucknow teachers’ seat.
In Agra, SP’s Akash Agrawal defeated BJP candidate Hari Kishore Tiwari. Agrawal had won the seat as an Independent in 2020.
The biggest setback for the BJP came in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, Varanasi, where SP’s Lal Bihari Yadav won the teachers’ seat.
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A total of 152 candidates are in the fray across five graduates’ and six teachers’ constituencies. The election recorded a turnout of 55.24% among 1,481,310 eligible voters. The main contest is between the ruling BJP and the SP, with independents and party rebels also in the fray.
