New Delhi: Uroosa Imran Rana, the daughter of popular Urdu poet, Munawwar Rana who contested election from Uttar Pradesh’s Purwa seat of Unnao has lost miserably, acquiring lesser number of votes than NOTA. She contested as a Congress candidate lost to BJP’s Anil Kumar Singh in the state.
Earlier, Munawwar Rana stated repeatedly that if Yogi gets re-elected as UP’s chief minister, he will leave the state. It is interesting to look at how the table turned as soon as the vote results got released on Thursday.
Notably, Uroosa Imran Rana received 1876 EVM votes, 2 Postal votes amounting to a total of 1878 with 0.73%. Her votes were lesser than NOTA which includes 2608 EVM votes, 1 Postal vote, both amounting to 2609 votes with 1.02%.
From Purwa seat, BJP’s Anil Kumar Singh won the election with a total number of 133827 votes among which 133687 EVM votes and 140 Postal votes. He was followed by Samajwadi Party’s Uday Raj with a total number of 102766 votes.
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Uroosa Imran Rana concluded in the fourth position on the result status. Uroosa’s relationship was with Congress dates back to 2010, a time when Mayawati-led BSP was in power in Uttar Pradesh. In October 2020, Uroosa was promoted to vice-president of the Uttar Pradesh Mahila Congress.
Interestingly, during the time of CAA protest rallies, Uroosa took part in one of the anti-CAA rallies in 2019. Also, Uroosa accused Uttar Pradesh Congress party chairman Ajay Kumar Lallu of misbehaving with her at a time she went to visit Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Lucknow in 2021.
Controversies around Munawwar Rana
Last year, Munawwar Rana stated that if Yogi Adityanath gets re-elected as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he will be leaving the state. However, he attached a condition saying that if Yogi Adityanath gets re-elected as chief minister with the help of AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi, he will leave the state.
Munawwar made several controversial statements over the years. One time he said that Muslims have eight children as they are afraid that two of the children will be labelled terrorists and get killed, while one will die of Covid-19, therefore at least one child should be there for the burial. He made this comment while discussing a prospective population control bill.
Besides, a police complaint was registered against him last year at the Hazratganj police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow for making communally inflammatory statements after he equated Ramayana author Maharshi Valmiki to the Taliban.
