This story is from September 28, 2019

BJP on victory lap in Hamirpur, but SP-BSP poll more

BJP on victory lap in Hamirpur, but SP-BSP poll more
KANPUR: After a four-cornered fight, BJP retained the Hamirpur-Sadar assembly seat after counting concluded on Friday evening. Though BJP’s Yuvraj Singh knocked out his closest rival and Samajwadi Party veteran Manoj Kumar Prajapati by 17,867 votes, the results brought the focus back on SP-BSP’s broken marriage as total votes polled by the former partners would have secured a comfortable victory margin of 10,000 votes.

The polls, which were marred by floods and boycott calls, clocked a moderate turnout of 48.10%. Though BJP retained the seat, the win margin was reduced and so was the turnout. The 2017 poll had witnessed 63.62 polling.
Of nine candidates in fray, BSP stood third and Congress finished fourth. BJP’s Yuvraj Singh maintained a steady lead during counting, which started at 8 am and bagged 74,409 votes while SP's Manoj Kumar Prajapati was runner-up with 56542 votes. BSP's Naushad Ali secured 28,798 votes and Hardeepak Nishad of Congress got 16083 votes.
Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti first wrested Hamirpur-Sadar seat in 2012. In 2014, a bypoll was necessitated when the sadhvi bagged Fatehpur Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket. Thereafter, BJP fielded a turncoat Ashok Chandel, who won Assembly polls on both SP and BJP tickets and also the Hamipur parliamentary seat as a BSP candidate in 1999. In 2017 assembly poll, Chandel defeated his nearest rival Manoj Prajapati of SP by 48655 votes to become MLA for fourth time.
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