Ajay Mishra Teni loses Lakhimpur Kheri seat
Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), Jun 4: Union minister and BJP candidate Ajay Mishra Teni lost the Lakhimpur Kheri Lok Sabha seat to the Samajwadi Party's Utkarsh Verma by a margin of 34,329 votes, according to Election Commission figures.
Utkarsh Verma secured 5,57,365 votes while Ajay Mishra Teni got 5,23,036 votes.
A junior minister in the Centre, Teni came into spotlight in 2021 when his son was accused of driving his SUV over protesting farmers. The incident resulted in the death of four farmers.
Despite the backlash over the incident, Teni held on to his position as a minister and was made a candidate again by the BJP from the seat this time.
Ajay Mishra won the seat on a BJP ticket in 2014 and repeated his victory again in 2019 but failed to make a hat-trick.
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
