Ayodhya, Feb. 5 -- Voting for the Milkipur by-election in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya district began on Wednesday morning.

The voting in the constituency started at 7 am and will continue until 5 pm.

The fate of candidates in the fray will be decided by the Scheduled Castes (SC)-reserved constituency's 3,70,829 voters but the main contest is expected to be between Samajwadi Party's Ajit Prasad and the BJP's Chandrabhanu Paswan.

The by-election neccesiated after Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad vacated the seat after winning the Lok Sabha election from Faizabad (Ayodhya) held last year.

Avadesh was the sitting SP MLA from Milkipur, having won the seat, which falls under the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency, in the 2022 Assembly elections ...