Bypoll to Kairana will see a joint opposition taking on the ruling BJP. The constituency fell vacant after the death of BJP MP Hukum Singh. His daughter Mriganka Singh is now the party's candidate for the bypoll and she will take on Rashtriya Lok Dal's (RLD) Tabassum Hasan, who is supported by the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
The opposition hopes that by consolidating anti-BJP votes, they will repeat the success of the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections, where the ruling party suffered an unexpected defeat.
Here are the live updates on Kairana bypoll:
EVMs malfunctioning in Bhandara-Gondiya poll. In many big European nations, election commissions have rejected the EVMs and gone back to ballot paper system. SP leader Akhilesh Yadav ji just called me up,he also said 300 EVMs not working in Kairana bypoll: Praful Patel,NCP pic.twitter.com/M8mOsOHNIt
- ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2018
As by-polls took place across nine states on Monday, there were allegations of malfunctioning voting machines at Kairana and Noorpur in Uttar Pradesh, constituencies seen as testing grounds for opposition unity against the states ruling BJP."
शामली, कैराना, गंगोह, नकुड, थानाभवन और नूरपुर के लगभग 175 पोलिंग बूथों से EVM-VVPAT मशीन के ख़राब होने की शिकायत तुरंत सुनी जाए. pic.twitter.com/PKeofl6VX6
- Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) May 28, 2018
Bypolls in 10 states, voting machine snag in Uttar Pradesh's #Kairana
- NDTV (@ndtv) May 28, 2018
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Track LIVE updates of #KairanaByPoll: https://t.co/MGgKxWlZzD pic.twitter.com/OAmV3gJCKZ
Tabassum Hasan, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) candidate for #Kairana Lok Sabha by-poll, casts her vote; says, 'machines are being tampered everywhere, faulty machines haven't been replaced in Muslim&Dalit dominated areas. They (BJP) think they can win polls like this.That won't happen' pic.twitter.com/1jyBDTmtKZ
- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 28, 2018
Voting for #Kairana Lok Sabha by-poll underway; Visuals from polling booth number 29 in Shamli pic.twitter.com/xxuioIEUV3
- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 28, 2018
Kairana constituency in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pardesh has virtually assumed the dimension of a strategic player in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections."