{"id":417357,"date":"2022-12-05T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=417357"},"modified":"2022-12-05T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:48:41","slug":"rampur-bypolls-voters-denied-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/rampur-bypolls-voters-denied-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rampur Bypolls: Voters say they were denied their voting rights, allege brutality by police | Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A video has come to light from Uttar Pradesh\u2019s by-election bound Rampur where the voters can be heard alleging that the police have denied them their right to vote and have also assaulted them in from trying to go to the election booth to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three places in Uttar Pradesh will be holding elections for the seat of Rampur, Khatauli and Mainpuri on Monday. From one of the by election bound places, Rampur, a video has come to light in which a muslim woman along with more people can be seen telling the camera that the police have been denying and turning away the voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman in the video can also be seen showing another woman\u2019s wounded hand allegedly as a result of police brutality. The woman can be heard saying that a wounded elderly woman had gone out to cast their vote, however, to her surprise, the authorities allegedly attacked the elderly woman with lathis and denied her her right of voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman can also be seen showing another person who was a victim to the brutality inflicted by the police. The woman, in the video, also alleged that the authorities had locked the people in as they are not being given the right to vote and stating that the authorities have been dictatorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watch video here:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The woman in the video can also be seen showing her voter ID and Aadhar card which are valid documents for one to cast their votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rampur by-elections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The by-elections for the Rampur constituency seat were scheduled to be held on 5 December after they necessitated after the disqualification of SP MLA Azam Khan. The two parties who are looking horns for the Rampur seat are BJP and Samajwadi Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BJP has fielded Former Party MLA Shiv Bahadur Saxena\u2019s son Akash Saxena for the Rampur seat whereas BJP counterpart in Rampur, Samajwadi Party has fielded former MLA Azam Khan\u2019s close aide Asim Raza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result of the by election will be released on 8 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gujarat Congress MLA Kanti Kharadi alleges BJP workers attacked him, attackers include BJP\u2019s Ladhu Parghi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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":"

The woman in the video can also be seen showing another woman\u2019s wounded hand allegedly as a result of police brutality. The woman can be heard saying that a wounded elderly woman had gone out to cast their vote, however, to her surprise, the authorities allegedly attacked the elderly woman with lathis and denied her her right of voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":417364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Rampur Bypolls: Voters say they were denied voting, allege brutality by police | #Watch\n\n\n#Viral #News #UttarPradesh #MainpurBypolls #India #Trending #ViralVideo","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[148147,132992,84,850,148146],"yst_prominent_words":[6079,20827,18052,4097,69064,21058,4051,4000,5913,25068,47510,14408,30082,24487,4133,23238,4149],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/12\/05171041\/Screenshot-2022-12-05-170824-1.png","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\/417357"}],"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=417357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417357"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=417357"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=417357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}