 "BJP sweeps legislative council polls in Uttar Pradesh")
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received a major boost in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Saturday when it won legislative council elections in three seats.
BJP candidates won the graduate constituencies of Kanpur, Gorakhpur-Faizabad and Bareilly-Moradabad, of elections held to five seats.
Unlike the other elections, to vote as part of the graduate constituency, apart from being a citizen of India and a resident in the constituency, the main requirement is that the person must have a graduate degree from a recognised Indian university or an equivalent qualification.
BJP's Arun Pathak defeated his nearest Samajwadi Party (SP) rival in the Kanpur graduate constituency by 9,000 votes.
In the Gorakhpur-Faizabad graduate constituency, BJP's Devendra Pratap Singh defeated his nearest Secondary Education Federation Sharma Group's Sanjayan Tripathi.
In the Bareilly-Moradabad MLC graduate seat, BJP's Jaypal Singh Vyast defeated his nearest SP-supported candidate Renu Mishra, while the Congress candidate Kumud Gangwar stood third.
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