Akhilesh comfortably wins against union minister Baghel

Akhilesh Yadav defeated BJP candidate and union minister SP Singh Baghel in the Karhal assembly constituency, located in Mainpuri district, by 67,504 votes.

Published on: Mar 10, 2022, 23:58:48 IST

By Hemendra Chaturvedi, AGRA

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav comfortably won the Karhal assembly constituency, in Mainpuri district, by margin of 67,504 votes defeating BJP candidate and union minister SP Singh Baghel.

Akhilesh got in 1,48,196 votes (60.12%) while Baghel got 80,692 votes (32.74%) in an interesting contest as union home minister Amit Shah, chief minister Yogi Adityanath and deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya had campaigned for Baghel.

BSP candidate Kuldip Narayan got only 15,701 votes (6.37%) while 1,909 pressed NOTA as their choice for Karhal seat.

The Karhal seat had acquired VVIP status after Akhilesh chose to contest from this Yadav dominated constituency in Mainpuri, which is represented in the Lok Sabha by his father and SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.

BJP made the contest interesting by asking union minister and Agra MP Baghel to contest against Akhilesh. An alleged attack on Baghel’s cavalcade put the contest in the spotlight.

Mulayam campaigned for SP in just a few constituencies and Karhal was one of them. Despite the challenge to Akhilesh from the union minister, he was expected to win.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hemendra Chaturvedi
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.Read More