BIJNOR: To counter SP-RLD's intense door-to-door campaigning, BJP is using 'Ragini' folk songs to garner sympathy votes in Noorpur assembly bypoll. Ragini is a local folk song form heard in the rural belt of western UP. It is a story sung with musical instruments, but with limited enactment." Lokendra tu to chala gaya, ab kaun rokega ye aansu (Lokender you are gone, who will console us now)," says one of the many songs specially composed by BJP to make an emotional appeal to the residents of Noorpur. The party's campaign vehicles with loudspeakers fitted on them take multiple rounds of the constituency every day, ensuring that these songs reach out to each and every resident.BJP MLA Lokendra Singh Chauhan had died in a car accident and his widow Avani Singh will be contesting on the party ticket from the seat this time around.Simultaneously, scores of BJP leaders and workers are carrying out door-to-door campaigning. According to party insiders, several BJP bigwigs will be visiting the constituency in the next few days.Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be here on Thursday.On the other hand, SP-RLD candidate Naemul Hasan has been silently conducting door-to-door campaigning.

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