Mankapur Election Result Live: Looking at the trends in Mankapur’s Gaura assembly seat, the main contest is between BJP and SP. In the counting of votes so far, BJP’s Ramapati Shastri is leading by more than 26,000 votes. Here Ramesh Chandra Gautam is from SP, Santosh Kumari (Smt. Santosh Kumari) from Congress, Shyam Narayan from BSP (BSP), Jai Ram from AAP (AAP). Suman (Jai Ram Suman) is also in the fray.
Result update till 03:00 PM
BJP: Ramapati Shastri, 65911 votes
SP: Ramesh Chandra Gautam, 39588 votes
BSP: Shyam Narayan, 2615 votes
Result update till 12:50 pm
BJP: Ramapati Shastri – Leading by 18,953 votes
SP: Ramesh Chandra Gautam — 2nd place
Result update till 10:30 am
BJP: Ramapati Shastri – Leading by over 7,600 votes
SP: Ramesh Chandra Gautam — 2nd place
Mankapur assembly seat of Gonda district of UP is included in the high-profile seats. From this seat, the cabinet minister Ramapati Shastri is once again in the fray in the Yogi government. He has the responsibility of feeding the lotus again on this seat in front of him.
In front of Ramapati Shastri, former MLA from Bahujan Samaj Party, Ramesh Chand Gautam, who joined the SP, is in the ground. This time Shyam Narayan Kori has been fielded from Bahujan Samaj Party. Santosh Kumari, daughter of former SP MLA Late Babulal Kori, is playing with the Congress this time.
History of Mankapur Assembly Constituency
If we talk about the political history of Mankapur assembly seat, then Rambishnu Azad won from Congress in 1985 and 1989. In 1991, Chhedilal won from BJP. Rambishnu Azad won again from Congress in 1993.
From 1996, 2002 and 2007, Rambishnu Azad won from the Samajwadi Party. At the same time, in 2012, Babulal Kori from the Samajwadi Party ran his cycle. Talking about the year 2017, Ramapati Shastri won from BJP and became the cabinet social welfare minister in the BJP government.
