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Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh on Friday defeated his BJP rival dara singh chauhan in the Ghosi assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh with a margin of 42,759 votes, an official said. The SP retained the seat with Singh garnering 1,24,427 votes. Chauhan got 81,668 votes, according to the Election Commission (EC).

With his loss in the Ghosi bypoll on Friday, BJP candidate dara singh chauhan joined the league of nearly a dozen turncoats who lost their seats after switching sides during the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Two days after he resigned from the UP assembly and met home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, SP MLA Dara Singh formally joined the BJP along with his supporters in the presence of UP BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary and the two deputy CMs, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, on Monday.

Additional SP Mahesh Singh Atri said that the assailant has been identified as Monu Yadav and teams had been engaged for his arrest.

BJP picked turncoat dara singh chauhan on Monday as its OBC face to take on SP’s Sudhakar Singh, a Thakur, in the September 5 byelection to the Ghosi assembly seat in UP, barely a month after the former quit Akhilesh Yadav’s party and resigned as an MLA to return to the saffron fold

A day after Uttar Pradesh labour minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the cabinet, along with four others, another senior minister - dara singh chauhan - quit the ministry.

Yogi Adityanath allocates portfolios to four newly inducted ministers in Uttar Pradesh, including Om Prakash Rajbhar and Anil Kumar. dara singh chauhan and Sunil Kumar Sharma are also part of the state Cabinet. The ministers represent various districts and communities, and have been associated with different political parties and alliances.

More than a year after he defected to Samajwadi Party, former BJP MLA and former UP minister dara singh chauhan may return to the saffron fold.

The campaigning for the Ghosi assembly by-poll took an ugly turn on Sunday afternoon when a youth threw ink on Bharatiya Janata Party candidate dara singh chauhan in Adari area of Mau district.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) BJP on Monday announced the candidature of dara singh chauhan for the Ghosi assembly seat bypoll, a month after he quit the Samajwadi Party and resigned from the UP assembly to return to the saffron fold.

"The popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and massive support of people have made the Samajwadi Party upset and frustrated. That is why they are attacking me in frustration," Chauhan said.

Former BSP MP and OBC leader dara singh chauhan, who joined BJP early in 2015, has been made the national president of the party's OBC morcha (wing). His appointment, announced on Friday , is the third of an office bearer from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the key focus for BJP chief Amit Shah at the moment.

dara singh chauhan has been elected leader of the 21-member BSP in the Lok Sabha.

It will not be a smooth sail for rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA dara singh chauhan, who joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) camp just ahead of the assembly elections, at Ghosi seat as the SP had won this seat only once in 2012.

In a jolt to Samajwadi Party, its MLA from Ghosi, dara singh chauhan, resigned from Vidhan Sabha on Saturday in a move that consolidated his reputation as a party hopper.

His joining is seen as a nudge to SP ahead of the Ghosi by polls where BJP's dara singh chauhan is up against SP's Sudhakar Singh. Without taking anyone's name, Pandey slammed SP chief Akhilesh Yadav for giving ticket to a person who was a criminal.

The Uttar Pradesh assembly on Tuesday announced the Ghosi assembly seat as vacant with effect from July 17 when SP MLA dara singh chauhan formally tendered his resignation from Vidhan Sabha membership to speaker Satish Mahana and joined the BJP.

Samajwadi Party (SP) retained the Ghosi assembly seat as its candidate Sudhakar Singh defeated turncoat politician and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate dara singh chauhan by a margin of 42,759 votes in a high-voltage contest in the by-election.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the bypoll date for the Ghosi assembly constituency, which became vacant after the former Samajwadi Party MLA Dara Singh joined the BJP last month.

A day after Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from his post, another cabinet minister dara singh chauhan followed suit, sending fresh tremors in the saffron camp on Wednesday. Like Maurya, Chauhan, too, had quit BSP to join BJP in 2015. Both Maurya and Chauhan belong to the backward castes.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath expands his cabinet, with notable additions like dara singh chauhan and Sunil Kumar Sharma. BJP confers Bharat Ratna on Chaudhary Charan Singh. RLD forms alliance with NDA for upcoming general elections in Bijnor and Baghpat.

Confident about the victory of BJP in Ghosi assembly by-election, deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Tuesday said opposition candidates would lose their security deposits.