Counting of votes is underway on Sunday in three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi where bypolls were held on June 23. The counting of votes began at 8 am under multi-tier security cover. At first, postal ballots will be counted and then EVMs opened.
AAP has said that the BJP had lost the Rajinder Nagar seat even though 40 star campaigners and 10 cabinet ministers campaigned for it.
In the early trends in the counting of votes in Azamgarh, BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua was trailing Samajwadi Party candidate Dharmendra Yadav. Suddenly in the afternoon, the BJP candidate went far ahead and eventually won the seat, vacated by former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
BJP's Ghanshyam Lodhi has won the bypoll in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Union Cabinet Minister of Minority Affairs, said that BJP's victory in Rampur was because of the ‘inclusive development’ by PM Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) leader Simranjit Singh Mann said after his victory, “This is a great win for our party. We have defeated all national parties in this bypoll. My priority will be to raise the issue of the poor economic condition of Sangrur including the condition of farmers under debt. We will work with the Punjab government.”
Durgesh Pathak, AAP candidate for Rajinder Nagar by-poll, said after his win, “This is CM Kejriwal's victory, it's victory of works done by AAP. BJP had no agenda here, had lost the election on day 1. They will lose in every election incl upcoming Nagar Nigam elections here.”
Meanwhile, BJP's Amit Malviya has reacted to the verdict.
Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring has accepted the ‘people’s verdict' while slamming AAP's ‘insensitive’ and ‘inept’ governance.
AAP has lost Bhagwant Mann's seat while Akali Dal's Simranjit Singh Mann emerged as the winner from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat. He won by 7,052 votes. Following the resignation of Bhagwant Mann, who was chosen as an MLA from Dhuri in the state assembly elections earlier this year, the seat became vacant.
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak surged ahead with a margin of over 10,000 votes over his immediate rival, BJP's Rajesh Bhatia, after nine rounds of counting on Sunday for the Rajinder Nagar assembly bypoll.
After an initial lead, Samajwadi Party is now trailing on both Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats.
According to available trends, SP candidate Mohd Asim Raja, who was earlier leading, is now trailing by 5,381 votes in Rampur behind his nearest rival, Ghanshyam Lodhi of the BJP.
In Azamgarh, BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua' has taken a lead of 6,775 votes over SP's Dharmendra Yadav.
SAD (Amritsar) candidate Simranjit Singh Mann was leading over his nearest AAP rival Gurmail Singh by a margin of over 4,500 votes from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha won the by-election from the Town Bardowali seat by a margin of 6,104 on Sunday. The BJP CM secured 17,181 votes, which is 51.63% of the total votes polled.
YSRC leading by 75,785 votes in Atmakur seat. YSRC candidated Mekapati.Vikram Reddy has secured 92,694 votes so far
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak galloped ahead with a lead of over 5,000 votes over his immediate rival, BJP’s Rajesh Bhatia. According to the election commission website, at the end of the sixth round of counting, Pathak was leading over Bhatia by a margin of nearly 3,000 votes, which rose to over 5,000 by the end of seventh round of counting.
BJP candidate Gangotri Kujur was leading marginally as votes were being counted for the Mandar by-election in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Sunday.
After two rounds of counting, Kujur was leading by 112 votes against her nearest rival of the Congress. She secured 8,041 votes, while Congress candidate Shilpi Neha Tirkey got 7,929 votes.
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak was on Sunday morning leading over his BJP rival Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 1,000 votes at the end of the fifth round of counting of votes for the Rajinder Nagar assembly bypoll.
Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi (BJP)--votes: 1,66,507
Asim Raja (SP)--votes: 1,81,642
Dinesh Lal Yadav "Nirahua" (BJP)--votes: 76,660
Dharmendra Yadav (SP)--votes: 84025
Shah Alam Alias Guddu Jamali (BSP)--votes: 76,062
Punjab bypoll
Ashok Sinha (BJP) leading from Agartala seat
Anjan das ( CPI-M) leading from Surma constituency.
Congess party's Shilpi Neha Tirkey is marginally ahead of BJP's Gangoti Kujur from Mandar seat. At present, Tirkey voting percentage stands at 38.19%, while Kujur's voting percentage is at 37.71%.
YSR Congress leads from Atmakur constituency with 73.98% toatl votes, according to elelction commission. YSR Congress Party's Mekapati.Vikram Reddy is ahead of his BJP's rival Bharath Kumar Gundlapalli by a margin of over 46,000 votes.
Aam Aadmi Party candidate Durgesh pathak is leading from Rajinder Nagar seat. Pathak is ahead of his rival BJP's Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 1,500 votes.
Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Simranjit Singh Mann leading. AAP's Gurmail Singh follows close behind
SP's Dharmendra Yadav is leading in Azamgarh
SP candidate Asim Raja takes the lead with 1,05,355 votes.
Tripura:
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha is among the key candidates whose fate will be decided. Tripura has the highest number of four seats -- Agartala, Jubarajnagar, Surma and Town Bardowali. Saha, who is contesting from Town Bardowali, needs to win this election to continue as chief minister. He is a Rajya Sabha member who was sworn in last month after the then chief minister Biplab Deb's sudden resignation. Polling in Tripura on Thursday was the highest at 76.62%.
Rampur and Azamgarh constituency in UP:
Lok Sabha bypolls were held in Rampur and Azamgarh constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The bypolls in Uttar Pradesh were necessitated by resignations of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and party leader Azam Khan from Azamgarh and Rampur seats, respectively.
Both leaders quit as Lok Sabha members following their election to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in the elections held earlier this year. In Rampur, the BJP fielded Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi, who recently joined the party. Asim Raja, handpicked by Azam Khan is the SP candidate. The Mayawati-led BSP is not contesting from Rampur. The Azamgarh seat saw a triangular contest among BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirhua', a Bhojpuri actor-singer, SP's Dharmendra Yadav and BSP's Shah Alam, also known as Guddu Jamali.
Sangrur constituency in Punjab:
The bypoll in Sangrur was necessitated following the resignation of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann from the Lok Sabha after he was elected as an MLA in the state assembly elections earlier this year. Mann had won the Sangrur seat in the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab is facing its first test of popularity after its impressive performance in the assembly polls. The bypolls were held at a time when the AAP is facing opposition heat over the law-and-order scenario in the state and the killing of singer Sidhu Moosewala.
The AAP has fielded Gurmail Singh, the party's Sangrur district in-charge; the main opposition Congress former Dhuri MLA Dalvir Singh Goldy, while the BJP candidate is former Barnala MLA Kewal Dhillon, who had joined the party on June 4. Kamaldeep Kaur, sister of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassination case, was fielded by the SAD. Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) chief Simranjit Singh Mann is also in the fray.
Rajinder Nagar constituency in Delhi:
In Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, AAP's Durgesh Pathak is likely to have a close contest with BJP's Rajesh Bhatia, who had also been a councillor from the area. The Congress' nominee is Prem Lata.
The bypoll was necessitated in the wake of AAP leader Raghav Chadha leaving the seat after being elected to the Rajya Sabha recently.
"We have made all the arrangements for the exercise. The strong room is fully secured with a three-tier security cover. The counting centre has been set up at ITI Pusa. Postal ballots will be counted first, and only those ballots which have been received from service voters till 8 am on June 26 will be considered for counting. After that the EVM votes shall be counted," a senior official had said here on Saturday.
Mandar constituency in Jharkhand:
The by-election in Jharkhand was necessitated after the disqualification of Bandhu Tirkey as an MLA in the wake of his conviction in a corruption case. A special CBI court in Jharkhand had on March 28 sentenced Tirkey to three years imprisonment.
The Congress has fielded his daughter, Shilpi Neha Tirkey, as the common candidate of the ruling JMM-led coalition, while the BJP has nominated former legislator Gangotri Kujur in the seat. The Congress and the RJD are the two other constituents of the ruling alliance in Jharkhand.
Independent candidate Dev Kumar Dhan, backed by Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), is also in the fray.
Atmakuru constituency in Andhra Pradesh:
The by-election in Andhra Pradesh is being held to fill the vacancy caused due to the death of Industries Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy in February. His younger brother Vikram Reddy is the ruling YSR Congress candidate and he is locked in a contest with BJP's G Bharat Kumar Yadav. As per reports, nearly 67% of the 2.11 lakh voters exercised their franchise on Thursday in the by-election to Atmakuru Assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh.
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