<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Polling for the Bye-Election on the two Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh is going peacefully. Around 19.34 per cent voters exercised their franchise till 11:00 a.m.</span></p><span style="color: #222222;"><br />''Over 35 lakh people are eligible to cast the vote in Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha Constituency to decide the fate of 19 candidates including a woman candidate in the two constituencies.<br />''<br />''The By-Poll to the Rampur seat was necessitated by the resignation of Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav after being elected MLA in March while the Azamgarh seat fell vacant after Azam Khan quit as MP for the same reason.<br />''<br />''From Rampur, the BJP has fielded Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi while the SP has nominated Asim Raja, a close associate of Azam Khan.<br />''<br />'' The Mayawati-led BSP is not contesting from Rampur. The Azamgarh seat will see a triangular contest between the BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirhua', a famous Bhojpuri actor-singer; the SP's Dharmendra Yadav and the BSP's Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali.</span><br />
News On AIR | June 23, 2022 1:39 PM
Polling on for Bye-Election on two Lok Sabha seats in UP: Around 19.34 % voters exercise their franchise till 11:00 AM