Bypoll traits: RJD leads in Bihar, TMC in Bengal and Congress in Chhattisgarh

By PTI

KOLKATA/RAJNANDGAON/MUZZAFARPUR: The Trinamool Congress marched forward of its rivals within the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency and the Ballygunge meeting section by-polls after six rounds of counting, election officers stated Saturday.

In Ballygunge, TMC candidate Babul Supriyo is forward of CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim by 9,105 votes, whereas the ruling occasion’s nominee Shatrughan Sinha is main by 63,627 votes over BJP’s Agnimitra Paul in Asansol, they stated.

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Supriyo has up to now bagged 18,874 votes and Sinha secured 1,61,441 votes.

The by-polls, which came about on April 12, had been necessitated as Supriyo resigned because the MP of Asansol after switching over to the TMC from the BJP, whereas state minister Subrata Mukherjee, who represented Ballygunge, died final yr.

A complete of 15 lakh voters had been eligible to train their franchise in Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman district, whereas 2.5 lakh individuals might vote in south Kolkata’s Ballygunge.

The counting train started at 8 am amid tight safety.

Congress main in bypoll to Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh Assembly seat 

Counting of votes for the bypoll to Khairagarh Assembly seat in Chhattisgarh started on Saturday morning and as per the early traits, the Congress candidate is main by a margin of 1,242 votes, officers stated.

Both the ruling Congress and opposition BJP within the state are eyeing to win the seat that falls within the Naxal-hit Rajnandgaon district, the place by-election was necessitated after Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) MLA Devvrat Singh died in November final yr.

“The counting of votes in the bypoll held on April 12 in Khairagarh seat began at 8 am at the godwon of state seeds development corporation here,” a ballot official stated.

As per the early traits, Yashoda Verma of the Congress was main by a margin of 1,242 votes towards his nearest rival Komal Janghel of the BJP after three rounds of counting, he stated.

Verma secured 4,436 votes, whereas Janghel bagged 3,194 votes after the preliminary rounds of counting.

JCC (J) candidate Narendra Soni has secured 49 votes, he stated.

The voter turnout within the bypoll for the seat situated in state’s Naxal-affected Rajnandgaon district, was 77.88 per cent.

Postal ballots had been first taken up for counting adopted by votes solid within the EVMs, the official stated, including that the complete course of shall be carried out in 21 rounds.

A complete of 10 contestants had been within the fray, however political specialists really feel that this time the combat is nearly between the ruling Congress and opposition BJP because the JCC (J) has misplaced its attraction after the demise of Ajit Jogi in 2020.

Devvrat Singh, who belonged to the erstwhile royal household of Khairagarh, give up Congress in 2017 and joined former JCC (J) the subsequent yr.

He contested the 2018 Assembly polls on the JCC(J) ticket from Khairagarh.

He defeated BJP candidate Komal Janghel by a skinny margin of 870 votes.

This time, the BJP has as soon as once more fielded Komal Janghel, a former MLA, for the bypoll, whereas Yashoda Verma, the Khairagarh block unit chief of Congress, is the ruling occasion’s nominee.

Janghel and Verma each belong to the Lodhi caste, a numerically highly effective OBC neighborhood within the Khairagarh space.

However, stakes are excessive for the ruling Congress, as it’s combating to retain this seat, which was as soon as thought-about as its bastion.

Congress has promised the individuals to make Khairagarh a district if it wins the seat.

In the 2018 meeting polls in Chhattisgarh, the Congress registered a landslide victory profitable 68 seats within the 90-member House decimating the BJP to fifteen.

The JCC (J) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had bagged 5 and a couple of seats respectively.

Subsequently, the state witnessed bypolls to a few meeting seats which had been gained by Congress, bettering its tally to 70 within the meeting.

RJD candidate leads by 11,620 votes in Bihar’s Bochahan 

Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Amar Kumar Paswan was on Saturday main by over 11,620 votes over his nearest rival Baby Kumari of the BJP within the bypoll to Bihar’s Bochahan meeting constituency, an Election Commission official stated.

Paswan secured 26,623 votes, whereas Kumari bought 15,003 after the eighth spherical of counting, he stated.

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Vikassheel Insaan Party’s Geeta Kumari was within the third place with 13,512 votes.

The counting of votes for the meeting constituency in Muzaffarpur district is underway.

By-poll to the seat was necessitated by the loss of life of MLA Musafir Paswan, who had gained on the ticket of the Vikassheel Insaan Party.

Around 59.20 per cent of two,90,544 voters had exercised their franchise within the by-election to the meeting section on April 12.