Uttar Pradesh by-election: What is the situation of the seat where the police inspector waved a pistol and his picture went viral?

There was a lot of controversy during the voting in the Meerapur assembly seat under Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. Here in Kakaroli village, two groups clashed with each other and stones were pelted. After this, the police dispersed the crowd by using mild force. During this, a police officer was seen standing with a pistol in his hand. Now the results of the by-election on the Meerapur assembly seat have started coming out. Let’s know who is winning this seat.

Who are the candidates?

The main contest in the by-election on the Meerapur assembly seat is between Sumbul Rana of Samajwadi Party and Mithilesh Pal of RLD. Let us tell you that RLD and BJP are in alliance together. Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded Shahnajar, AIMIM has fielded Mohammad Arshad and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) has fielded Zahid Hussain from Meerapur.

Who is moving forward?

The counting of votes for the by-election held on the Meerapur assembly seat is underway. 17 out of 24 rounds of counting have been completed in the area. RLD’s Mithilesh Pal has got 60788 votes. She is leading by 20751 votes. SP’s Sumbul Rana has got 40037 votes. In third place, Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram)’s Zahid Hussain has got 17372 votes. AIMIM’s Mohammad Arshad has got 13903 votes.

Akhilesh had raised the issue.

On Wednesday, SP President Akhilesh Yadav demanded the suspension of the inspector who brandished a pistol. He posted a video on Twitter and said, “The Election Commission should immediately suspend the Kakaroli police station in-charge of Meerapur because he is stopping voters from voting by threatening them with a revolver.” In this video, a policeman can be seen allegedly stopping women from voting at gunpoint.