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  • Dimple Yadav wins Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll
  • Mainpuri was late UP CM Mulayam Singh YAdav's stronghold
  • Dimple toppled BJP candidate in bypoll

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UP Lok Sabha bypoll: Dimple Yadav wins Mainpuri, SP retains stronghold

Considered as the SP's bastion, the seat was held by party founder and Dimple Yadav's father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav

UP Lok Sabha bypoll: Dimple Yadav wins Mainpuri, SP retains stronghold

Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav on Thursday won the Mainpuri parliamentary bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, defeating her nearest rival and BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya by 2,88,461 votes.

Considered as the SP's bastion, the seat was held by party founder and Dimple Yadav's father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav and got vacated after his death on October 10.

In 2019, Mulayam Singh Yadav won the Mainpuri seat by defeating BJP candidate Prem Singh Shakya by 94,389 votes.

Also watch: Mainpuri bypoll: voting in Mulayam's bastion as SP's Dimple Yadav claims BJP distributing cash, liquor

Dimple took a comfortable lead of over 2.38 lakh votes in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency.

Following defeats in Azamgarh and the Rampur Lok Sabha bypoll, considered the SP's bastions, the Mainpuri parliamentary was important for the Akhilesh Yadav-led party and his ally RLD.

(With inputs from PTI)

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