Prayagraj,

07 May (HS): BJP candidate Sachin Mishra has won the by-election for the post

of councillor in Ward 48 Alopibagh of Prayagraj Municipal Corporation. Sachin

Mishra got 1093 votes out of the total 2731 votes cast. SP candidate Deep

Prakash Sonkar came third with 761 votes and independent candidate Santosh

Kumar Gupta came second with 866 votes. This by-election in Alopibagh ward was

held after the death of senior BJP leader and councillor from this ward, Umesh

Chandra Mishra. The victorious BJP candidate Sachin Mishra is his son.

BJP

workers celebrated the victory by distributing sweets. For the BJP, which is

preparing for 2027, this by-election served as a litmus test, and the victory

has thrilled the workers. The organization took this by-election seriously.

Even Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was visiting Prayagraj to

participate in various programs on May 5th, the day of the election, urged

everyone to focus on the Alopibagh by-election without wasting time during an

afternoon interaction with workers at the Circuit House. The BJP Metropolitan President

also deployed a full team of workers and remained actively involved in the

election campaign. Mayor Ganesh Kesarwani, MLA Siddharth Nath Singh,

Harshvardhan Bajpai, Anand Sonkar, Anuj Kushwaha, Kunj Bihari Mishra, Anil

Kesarwani, Anand Srivastava, Dr. Shailesh Pandey, Vikramjeet Bhadauria, Ramesh

Pasi, Pramod Modi, Arun Patel, Vijay Srivastava, Pramod Singh, Raju Pathak,

Ajay Singh, District Media Incharge Pawan Srivastava, Vivek Mishra, Sachin

Jaiswal, Shyam Prakash Pandey, Deep Dwivedi, and Kritagya Narayan Mishra, among

other officials, congratulated the workers.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi