UP Elections: BJP loses in Ayodhya for the first time since 1992

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Lucknow, Mar 6, 2012: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost in Ayodhya Assembly constituency for the first time since the Babri Masjid was demolished on Demcember 6, 1992. BJP candidate Lallu Singh lost to Samajwadi Party’s Tej Narayan Pandey alias Pawan Pandey in the results declared on Tuesday.

Pandey won Ayodhya by a margin of 5,405 votes. While Pandey got 55,262 votes, Singh came in second with 49,857 votes. Ved Prakash Gupta of the Bahujan Samaj Party secured 33,481 votes to come in third and Independent candidate Gulshan alias Bindoo was fourth with 22,023. Congress’s Rajendra Pratap Singh ended a distant fourth with just 9,710 votes.

Ayodhya is one of the five assembly constituencies in Faizabad in Central Uttar Pradesh and had been the laboratory of the BJP.

Courtesy: IBN Live