UP: BJP wins Deoria assembly seat

The ruling BJP retained the Deoria assembly seat after its candidate Satyaprakash Mani Tripathi defeated Samajwadi Party's Brahma Shankar Tripathi by a margin of over 20,000 votes

Deoria is among the seven assembly constituencies in the state for which bypolls were held on November 3

Satyaprakash Mani Tripathi won the seat by 20,089 votes, the election commission here said.   The seat fell vacant following the death of sitting MLA Janmejay Singh.