Milkipur bypoll 2025
The Milkipur seat fell vacant when sitting SP MLA Awadhesh Prasad won the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in June. The bypoll was to be held earlier, along with by-elections for nine other Assembly seats in November 2024. But due to a pending court case, the Election Commission deferred the Milkipur bypoll.
The SP won 37 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in June last year, but its performance dipped when it could bag only two of the nine Assembly seats in the November bypolls.
Why is Milkipur so important?
For the BJP, winning in Milkipur is crucial as they want to give an answer to the Samajwadi Party, who boast of winning the Faizabad (Ayodhya) Lok Sabha seat. Further, Milkipur would help in recreating a perception that Pasis have not deserted the party, as opposition claims.
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