Curious Case Of Kundarki Bypoll Results
After a 30 year gap, a BJP candidate in Uttar Pradesh’s Kundarki is to win the seat. Ramveer Thakur is the lone Hindu candidate contesting from the Muslim dominated area. From the 12 candidates fielded in the constituency, he had managed to lead with a vote margin of 1,18,347. Thakur had secured a total 1,34,441 votes so far.
Surprisingly, the other contenders who all belonged to the Muslim community in the constituency had polled very less compared to Thakur. Mohammad Rizwan who came in second secured 16,094 and the other candidates polled as follows. Chand Babu secured 10,341 votes, Mohammad Varish secured 5306 votes, Raftulla secured 828 votes, Rizwan Hussain secured 605 votes, Rizwan Ali secured 352 votes, Shokeen secured 231 votes, Mohammad Uvaish secured 177 votes, Masroor secured 101 votes, Muhammad Ubaish secured 89 votes and Sajaib secured 69 votes.
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Thakur if emerges victorious, he would be the first BJP candidate to win the set in over 30 years. The BJP had last won the Kundarki seat in the 1993 UP Vidhan Sabha election, when Chandra Vijay Singh secured victory for the saffron party.
Kundaki is part of west UP’s Sambhal Lok Sabha seat, has a high concentration of Muslim population with 60% of its population belonging to the community.
When BJP fielded the sole Hindu candidate among 11 Muslim contenders, Samajwadi Party’s Mohammed Rizwan who has nearly 40 years of political experience was the INDIA’ pick.
Rizwan first won from the constituency in 2002 but lost to BSP’s Akbar Husain in 2007. However, he made a strong come back later by securing consecutive victory in 2012 and 2017.
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However, there are reports of malpractices and police trying to keep some voters away from polling at Kundarki. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav accused the Uttar Pradesh Police of unlawfully checking voter cards and Aadhaar IDs. He had urged the poll body to take action based on complaints on its official social media accounts about some communities being prevented from voting.
Of UP’s nine Assembly seats, BJP leads in six, SP in two, and ayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal(BJP’s alliance partner) in one.
