‘Confident Of Winning All 80 UP Seats In 2024 Polls’: UP Dy CM On BJP Losing Ghosi Bypoll

"We lost the Ghosi bypoll, but we are confident that we will win all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections," said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday said that he is confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party will win all the 80 seats in the state during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls after the saffron party suffered loss in the Ghosi bypoll. Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh defeated BJP’s Dara Singh Chauhan with a margin of 42,759 votes on Friday on Ghosi constituency in Mau district where bypoll was necessitated after Chauhan, an Other Backward Classes (OBC) leader, quit the SP and joined the BJP.

"We lost the Ghosi bypoll, but we are confident that we will win all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections," Maurya said speaking to reporters on Sunday.

Backed by other constituents of the INDIA opposition bloc, the SP retained the seat, with Singh garnering 1,24,427 votes (57.19 per cent), while Chauhan got 81,668 votes (37.54 per cent), according to the Election Commission (EC).

Of the 10 candidates in the poll fray, six got votes less than the NOTA (None of the Above). Peace Party’s Sanaullah secured the third spot bagging 2,570 votes, while Afroz Alam of the Jan Adhikar Party secured 2,100 votes.

NOTA (None of the Above) polled 1,725 votes.

A voter turnout of 50.77 per cent was recorded while it was 58.59 per cent in the 2022 Assembly polls. 

The voters were apparently angry over Chauhan switching his allegiance to the BJP.

"People have rejected these turncoats, who only change their political allegiance for their vested interests. The voters are aware of this," said Arvind Kumar Chauhan, a medical representative, according to a PTI report.