Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Wednesday exuded confidence in winning more assembly seats than before in the upcoming February 16 polls and mentioned that BJP has always worked for the people irrespective of elections.
Bye-elections to one assembly constituency, each in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and two assembly constituencies in Maharashtra will be held on February 27. The parliamentary constituency of Lakshadweep will also vote in bye-polls on February 27.
Ruling out the possibility of contesting against the Telegu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the Kuppam Assembly seat of Andhra Pradesh, popular actor and Tamil film producer Vishal said on Tuesday that he likes Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy more than Naidu.
The BJP has won 156 seats of 182 assembly seats in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, smashing all previous records of electoral performance. The Congress won 40 seats in the 68-member assembly riding on anti-incumbency.
For the first time, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday won the Rampur Sadar assembly seat, considered a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan when its candidate Akash Saxena defeated his nearest rival, Asim Raja.
Over 71 per cent of voting was recorded in the Bhanupratappur assembly by-election - the highest among six assembly seats in five states of the country where polling was held on December 5.
The counting began at 8 am to decide the fate of the candidates contesting the polls, among whom all eyes will be on the wife of Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav, who is contesting from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, necessitated by the demise of Samajwadi Party veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav in O
According to the latest data from the Election Commission of India (ECI), Padampur saw 75.89 per cent voting- the highest among all the other assembly seats undergoing elections, i.e., Bihar's Kurhani, Odisha's Padampur, Rajasthan's Sardarshahar, and Uttar Pradesh.