The Bharatiya Janata Party has received a rude shock in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi, after two Samajwadi Party candidates wrested away two Legislative Council seats held by the party in power at the state and the Centre, reported NDTV.
While the Samajwadi Party’s candidate Lal Bihari Yadav won the Teachers’ seat in Varanasi Division, his colleague Ashutosh Sinha won from the Graduates’ seat in the same division.
According to HT, while Lal Bihari polled 7,766 votes, followed by Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra of the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh, who got 6,830 votes. The sitting BJP candidate Chetnarayan Singh finished a distant third with only 4,858 votes.