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The Congress Party has decided to move the court flagging deceit in vote counting in six Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh where their candidates lost the election by a narrow margin. Senior leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid has been entrusted with the responsibility of fighting this legal battle by the party, Jagran.com reported. The candidates, who lost the election in a close fight, have been asked to provide the counting documents, related to their respective seats, to Khurshid.

The grand old party had contested 17 of 80 Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha seats in a seat-sharing agreement with the Samajwadi Party (SP) under the INDIA bloc. These seats include Rae Bareli, Amethi, Saharanpur, Amroha, Deoria, Bansgaon, Maharajganj, Kanpur, Sitapur, Jhansi, Varanasi, Allahabad, Mathura, Barabanki, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, and Fatehpur Sikri.

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Out of these, the Congress lost the elections in Amroha, Fatehpur Sikri, Kanpur, Maharajganj, Deoria, and Bansgaon by less than 50,000 votes.

The candidates have claimed they lost the election due to manipulations in the counting process. In Bansgaon, Congress’ Sadal lost by a smallest margin of 3,150 votes. Meanwhile, Akhilesh Pratap Singh lost by 34,842 votes in Deoria, Virendra Chaudhary by 35,451 votes in Maharajganj, Alok Mishra by 20,968 votes in Kanpur, Ramnath Sikarwar by 43,405 votes in Fatehpur Sikri, and Danish Ali by 28,670 votes in Amroha.

Congress spokesperson and head of the media department, CP Rai, revealed that Salman Khurshid will fight legal battles on behalf of the party based on complaints and documents provided by the candidates.

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The INDIA bloc, much to the surprise of many, garnered 232 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. The Congress party individually won 99 seats, doubling its tally from the 2019 election. A major jolt to the BJP came from Uttar Pradesh, where the SP-Congress alliance amassed 43 of 80 seats.