{"id":417100,"date":"2022-12-05T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=417100"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:48:42","slug":"mainpuri-bypolls-akhilesh-yadav-dimple-yadav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/mainpuri-bypolls-akhilesh-yadav-dimple-yadav\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainpuri bypolls: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav casts vote with Dimple Yadav, accuses police of not allowing people to cast votes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a contentious electoral contest, Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh turned go to the polls on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akhilesh Yadav, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, reached at Saifai with his wife, Dimple Yadav, a contender. The SP president claimed in a media interview that the Mainpuri administration was working hand in glove at the direction of the ruling party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-polls | I don&#39;t know on whose orders the administration is working from the day polling started. What briefing has been given to him? Complaints are coming continuously since morning. Police is not allowing people to cast votes: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jhfcVQ68HM\">pic.twitter.com\/jhfcVQ68HM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1599636948091826176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Akhilesh Yadav questioned to the media that how will democracy survive when the administration guides the forces. Voting is not being allowed in Rampur. Police are working against the guidelines of Election Commission and sending back the people so that they cannot vote back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that from the day the elections began, there is an irregularity. SP workers are being harassed by asking their names and addresses. They are being intimidated by outside forces. Complaints are being made since morning in Mainpuri, Karhal. Police officers are leaving their CUG to peons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/khatauli-by-election-samajwadi-party-allegation\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/khatauli-by-election-samajwadi-party-allegation\/\"> Khatauli by-election: Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Khatauli CO sends voters back from poll booth, Samajwadi Party urges EC to take cognizance | Watch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SP District President and former minister in UP cabinet Alok Shakya, after he exercised his franchise, has said that the police and administration are working in collusion with the BJP and that they were not allowing SP supporters to cast their votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Samajwadi Party (SP) patron Mulayam Singh Yadav\u2019s demise, a by-election for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha is being held. BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya, a former confidant of Mulayam&#8217;s brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, is contesting against SP leader Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri in an effort to win the traditional seat of Mulayam Singh Yadav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High-voltage by-election voting started at 7 am and will last till 6 pm. On December 8, the results of the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will also be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0906\u091c \u0915\u093e \u092e\u0924\u0926\u093e\u0928 \u0928\u0947\u0924\u093e \u091c\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0938\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940 \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093e\u0902\u091c\u0932\u093f \u0939\u094b\u0917\u093e. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LxiemwBkQv\">pic.twitter.com\/LxiemwBkQv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yadavakhilesh\/status\/1599630788206944256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During this, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and wife Dimple Yadav have posted an emotional post through Twitter. Both have posted this in the memory of Mulayam Singh Yadav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akhilesh Yadav wrote in the tweet that the today\u2019s polling will be a true tribute to Netaji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/gujarat-elections-kanti-kharadi-attack\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/gujarat-elections-kanti-kharadi-attack\/\">Gujarat Congress MLA Kanti Kharadi alleges BJP workers attacked him, attackers include BJP\u2019s Ladhu Parghi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/gujarat-assembly-elections-narendra-modi\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/gujarat-assembly-elections-narendra-modi\/\">Gujarat assembly elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges people to vote in large numbers, voting begins for 93 seats in second phase<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya, a former confidant of Mulayam&#8217;s brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, is contesting against SP leader Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri in an effort to win the traditional seat of Mulayam Singh Yadav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":417107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mainpuri bypolls: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav casts vote with Dimple Yadav, accuses police of not allowing people to cast votes\n\n\n#akhilesh_yadav #DimpleYadav #MainpuriByElection #UPDATE #news #latestupdate #Trending #TrendingNow #TrendingNews ","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4,125714],"tags":[143,148110,1028,148109,228,148111],"yst_prominent_words":[4492,4484,21895,8726,68186,21898,21890,4023,14408,20936,21899,22034,5465,5260,4079],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/12\/05114249\/mainpuri-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417100"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=417100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=417100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->