Milkipur Bypoll Election Result 2025: BJP’s Chandrabhanu Paswan wins by over 61,000 votes (WATCH)

BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan has won the bypoll by defeating Samajwadi Party’s Ajit Prasad by a margin of 61,710 votes. Paswan maintained a commanding lead in the Milkipur Assembly bypoll, extending his margin to over 1,00,000 votes over Prasad at one point during the counting.

BJP secured a decisive victory with 1,46,397 votes, defeating the Samajwadi Party (SP), which garnered 84,687 votes. The BJP emerged victorious with a significant margin of 61,710 votes.

As per the latest figures by Election Commission (EC), Paswan has secured 1,46,397 votes, while Ajit Prasad, son of SP’s Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad, has garnered 84,687 votes. Santosh Kumar of the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) was on the third place with 5,459 votes.

The bypoll was necessitated after Awadhesh Prasad vacated the seat following his election to the Lok Sabha last year. The victory is seen as a revenge for BJP's humiliating loss in the Faizabad (Ayodhya) Lok Sabha seat in last year's general elections.

While the BJP leaders hailed the victory and sought to portray SP’s win in Ayodhya in 2024 LS polls a ‘fluke’, the SP accused the saffron party of ‘misusing’ the official machinery to defeat his party.

‘’BJP’s victory in Milkipur is a farce…BJP can’t defeat us through votes and therefore it tries to win the elections by misusing the official machinery,’’ SP president Akhilesh Yadav said in a message on X (formerly Twitter).

The SP had earlier lodged complaints with the Election Commission alleging that their supporters were harassed by the police and were not allowed to exercise their franchise.

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