Peace prevails as Ayodhya votes

After casting his vote at Ayodhya8217;s junior high school, BJP National General Secretary and MP Vinay Katiyar said President8217;s rule would soon to be implemented in the state in case of a hung Assembly. He said there was a UPA conspiracy to snatch the voting rights of Uttar Pradesh legislators in the coming Presidential elections.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Katiyar said he hoped the BJP would come back to power in Uttar Pradesh on its own steam.

In Milkipur Assembly constituency, which had been declared most sensitive, polling went off peacefully. Anad Sen, former MLA and son of sitting BSP MP Mitrasen Yadav, is contesting from the seat on a BSP ticket.

Sen said, 8220;The BSP8217;s voters, including Dalits, backwards and minorities have voted en bloc in my favor and this time we are going to get back our traditional seat which we lost in the last byelection.8221;

In Ayodhya, BJP candidate and sitting MLA Lallu Singh Chauhan was confident that he would retain the seat. 8220;For the last 16 years Ayodhya has been an impregnable fortress. No one has the power to demolish it,8221; he said.