UP polls: Yogi Adityanath set to win Gorakhpur Urban seat with massive margin webindia123.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from webindia123.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
According to the Election Commission of India, Adityanath, who is contesting the Assembly elections for the first time, received 85,356 while his nearest rival SP candidate Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla got 30,498 votes.
While Gorakhpur is often portrayed as a ‘pro-Yogi saffron stronghold’, various fault lines have existed in Adityanath’s supposed bastion for a long time.
A day ahead of the sixth phase of Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, BJP s biggest trump card and state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath s dominance is likely to be continued in the party s stronghold Gorakhpur but the saffron brigade may face strong fight with Samajwadi Party on half of the nine seats.