Lakhimpur Kheri: The BJP on Thursday won all eight seats of the Lakhimpur Kheri district, Palia, Nighasan, Gola Gokarnnath, Srinagar, Dhaurhara, Lakhimpur, Kasta and Mohammadi, in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
BJP’s Harvinder Sahani won the Palia constituency of Lakhimpur Kheri district by 38,129 votes and Shashank Verma, the candidate from Nighasan seat won by a margin of 41,009 votes. Arvind Giri of Gola Gokranath constituency won by 29,294 votes. In Sri Nagar, Manju Tyagi defeated the Samajwadi Party candidate by 15,159 votes, while Vinod Shankar of Dhaurahra bagged the seat with a margin of 24,610 votes.
In Lakhimpur, Yogesh Verma won by a rather narrow margin of 3,537 votes, while in Kasta, Saurabh Singh won by 13,817 votes. Lokendra Singh bagged the Mohammdi seat by 4,871 votes.
Lakhimpur Kheri was one of the key attack points used by Opposition parties against the BJP, in the run up to the polls. Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in violence that erupted in the Tikunia area of the district on October 3, 2021.
Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra is one of the key accused in the case related to the killing of farmers, who were protesting the Farm Laws. Mishra was granted bail by the High Court in February. A disturbing video of the convoy mowing down the farmers at a rally went viral on social media sparking outrage across the country.
Ajay Mishra, though a Union Minister, was not part of the BJP's star campaigners' list in Uttar Pradesh and was less visible in the party's public reach out programmes in Lakhimpur Kheri, his native district. Amid continued attacks on BJP over the October violence, Mishra had even skipped rallies of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the district.
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