UP bypolls: Voting underway in nine Assembly seats
Deccan ChronicleLucknow: Nearly 10 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours of polling across nine assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. While eight seats fell vacant following the incumbent MLAs' election to the Lok Sabha, polling in Sisamau is being conducted due to Samajwadi Party lawmaker Irfan Solanki's disqualification from the assembly after his conviction in a criminal case. Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has fielded candidates from Ghaziabad, Kundarki and Mirapur while the Chandrashekhar Azad-led Azad Samaj Party is contesting on all seats except Sisamau. In the 2022 assembly polls, the Samajwadi Party won from Sisamau, Katehari, Karhal and Kundarki while the Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan and Khair seats were bagged by the BJP.