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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the Milkipur byelection in Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh and said every section has voted for the party in large numbers.
“‘Aaj desh tushtikaran nahi BJP ki santushtikaran ki policy ko chun raha hai (the country is choosing santushtikaran over tushtikaran). Today, along with Delhi, the BJP has got victory in Ayodhya’s Milkipur. Every section has voted for the BJP in large numbers,” PM Modi said while addressing BJP workers at party headquarters after party’s victory in Delhi polls.
BJP registered victory in what was seen as a battle of prestige in Milkipur Assembly bypoll as its candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan defeated Samajwadi Party’s Ajit Prasad by a thumping margin of 61,710 votes.
The Milkipur bypoll was necessitated after local MLA Awadhesh Prasad vacated the seat following his win in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Faizabad, which also includes the Ayodhya assembly segment.
The BJP lost the Faizabad seat in Lok Sabha polls, months after “pran prathishtha” at Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The Samajwadi Party had fielded Prasad’s son in the bypoll, who got just 84,687 votes, over 60,000 less than Paswan’s 1,46,397.
The election in Milkipur was deferred last year when other seats went for bypoll in Uttar Pradesh.
Following the result, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath targeted Samajwadi Party and said that the result will “put a full stop to the politics of ‘pariwarwad’ and lies.”
“The results of Milkipur by-elections will put a full stop to the politics of ‘pariwarwad’ and lies…The people have made it clear that no matter how much propaganda is done by the Samajwadi Party, the public is going to punish them,” CM Yogi said.
