Lucknow/Moradabad (PTI), Nov 24 (PTI) Like all politicians, BJP’s Ramveer Singh dreamed of ending his party’s losing streak, but little did he know that his victory would be so stylized, with a rout of 1.44 lakh votes from his party. closest rival.

Singh won the Kundarki Assembly constituency, a seat the BJP had been losing since 1993, defeating Samajwadi Party’s Mohammad Rizwan, who won 25,580.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed it a victory of nationalism.

“What was once a dream has now become a reality,” he said on Saturday after the results were announced.

Singh claimed that when the seat fell vacant, he was approached by hundreds of Muslims, who urged him to contest the poll.

Bypolls in Kundarki were necessitated following the election of its sitting MP, SP’s Ziaur Rehman, as Lok Sabha MP from Sambhal parliamentary constituency earlier this year.

“I was expecting a victory margin of 50,000 to 60,000. But the workers told me that I would win with more than a lakh votes. People had a feeling of love towards me. They were disappointed with the SP as cases were filed against thousands of people, and thousands of them were put behind bars during the SP rule from 2012 to 2017,” Singh said.

“When the seat became available, hundreds of Muslims came to me and asked me to look for a ticket. “We will make you an MP, we have made our decision,” they said. Because they asked, I remained active and the party leadership also listened to the voice of the people,” he said.

To Rizwan, who claimed the elections were rigged, Singh said he was hiding his failure.

“He can have the elections organized again. He will know what his value is,” Singh said.

On Saturday, when the results were announced, Rizwan challenged the warrant, alleging that the stands had been captured.

“It is not the defeat of Samajwadi… people did not vote here and polling booths were looted,” he told PTI.

Rizwan was the MP from Kundarki in 2002, 2012 and 2017.

The Muslim-majority seat of Moradabad in western UP was a test for the BJP’s Hindu unity plank.

The party’s campaign in the bypolls largely revolved around ‘Ram aur Rashtra’ against the opposition Samajwadi Party’s attempt to consolidate the OBC-Dalit-Muslim vote bank.

The victory came as a balm for the BJP, which suffered a massive reduction in its seats in the Lok Sabha elections held earlier in the year.

He won six of the nine Assembly seats in the state where polls were held on November 20.

Adding to the BJP’s emphatic performance, its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal won Meerapur, the only seat it contested. The Samajwadi Party emerged victorious in the remaining two seats – Karhal and Sishamau.

Besides Kundarki, the BJP emerged victorious in Kundarki, Ghaziabad, Khair (SC), Phulpur, Katehari and Majhawan constituencies. PTI NAV VN VN

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