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Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer of UP, said there were allegations that the district administration was not allowing people to cast their votes in some areas, but poll panel officials checked the polling booth through the pre-installed CCTV cameras and found voting was going on smoothly
In the 2019 general elections, the BJP clinched three of the eight seats: Pilibhit, Kairana, and Muzaffarnagar. The Samajwadi Party emerged victorious in Moradabad and Rampur, while the Bahujan Samaj Party secured Saharanpur, Bijnor, and Nagina
The tug of war for the Kairana Lok Sabha seat, once in news for exodus of Hindus, is between the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal on one side and Samajwadi Party and Congress on the other.
Despite being a Muslim dominated constituency, the BJP had wrested the Kairana Lok Sabha