Among these seats, there were many where the margin of victory was very thin.
In Nakud seat of Sahranpur, Dharm Singh Saini of BJP emerged victorious due to division of Muslim votes between Imran Masood of Congress and Firoz Aftab of Samajwadi Party.
As Firoz secured over 30,000 votes, Imran lost by about 4,000 votes to Saini.
There was an interesting contest on Thana Bhawan seat won by BJP’s Suresh Rana, infamous for his alleged role in Muzaffarnagar riots. He scraped through by 265 votes only, while RLD candidate Ashraf Ali Khan and BSP’s Abdul Waris secured 53,000 and 50,000 votes respectively.
