In another tweet, the former CM wrote, “The Election Commission should take immediate cognizance of the news of rigged counting of more votes than the votes polled in Gorakhpur and check the veracity of the vote counting and get the recounting done if found wrong.”
The main Opposition parties Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) did not fare well against the BJP and independent candidates in nagar palika parishads or nagar palikas either.
Sana Khanam's husband Mamoon Shah was eyeing a Congress ticket but the seat was reserved for women. He got married, they joined AAP the next day, and the wife got a ticket.
Apna Dal's Shafeek Ahmad Ansari won the Suar seat defeating BJP's arch-rival Samajwadi Party's Anuradha Chauhan by a margin of nearly 9,000 votes, while Apna Dal's Rinki Kol defeated SP's Kirti Kol in Chhanbey by a margin of over 9,000 votes.