If the Akhilesh Yadav-led party loses Suar, one of the two seats at stake, it will be yet another example of Azam Khan’s declining hold over Rampur. The other bypoll will be held in Chhanbey in Mirzapur district.
Farmers have gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to extend support to wrestlers, who are staging a sit-in protest against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Singh and demanding his arrest following the allegations of sexual harassment.
The farmers who arrived in the national capital from various states to express solidarity with the protesting grapplers at Jantar Mantar on Monday climbed the barricades put up in the area to reach the protest site, Delhi Police said.
Security has been stepped up at the Delhi-Ghazipur border ahead of the farmers' march that will be coming from different states to support the wrestlers.