BJP’s Bhavya Bishnoi wins Adampur bypoll, RJD candidate Neelam Devi wins Mokama

BJP’s Bhavya Bishnoi. ANI

New Delhi: BJP’s Bhavya Bishnoi on Sunday won the Adampur Assembly segment by defeating his nearest rival and Congress candidate Jai Prakash by a margin of around 16,000 votes while RJD candidate Neelam Devi won the Mokama bypoll by a margin of 16,741 votes.

The final victory margin is yet to be declared, said an official.

“It’ a victory of the policies of PM Modi, of the working of CM Khattar, of the trust of Adampur in Chaudhary Bhajan Lal family. I thank the people of Adampur they trusted us once again, said BJP’s Kuldeep Bishnoi, father of Bhavya.

Apart from the win in Adampur bypoll, the BJP has taken an early lead in three seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Bihar, while the ruling TRS was ahead of its rivals in Telangana’s Munugode as counting of votes got underway on Sunday for the bypolls to seven Assembly constituencies in six states.

The RJD won the Mokama constituency in Bihar, while Rutuja Latke, the candidate of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), established a comfortable lead after the first round of counting for the byelection to Andheri (East) Assembly seat in Mumbai.

After the win, RJD’s Neelam Devi said, “My victory was certain. I had already said there’s nobody else in my contest. It was just a formality. Mokama is the land of Parshuram, people won’t get lured. Vidhayak ji(Anant Singh) served people. They’re giving the result now.”

In the bypoll to Munugode Assembly constituency in Telanagana, the ruling TRS was ahead of its rivals after completion of the first round of counting of votes on Sunday While the TRS secured 6,096 votes, its nearest rival BJP got 4,904 votes in the first round. The Congress garnered 1,877 votes, official sources said.

In Uttar Pradesh, BJP candidate Aman Giri has taken a comfortable lead of about 25,000 votes over his nearest rival as counting of votes progressed in the Gola Gokarannath assembly bypolls.

While Giri has got 73,371 votes so far, Samajwadi Party’s Vinay Tiwari got 48,739 votes, officials said after the 18th round of counting.

According to the Election Commission trends for Dhamnagar bypolls in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj registered a lead over his BJD rival Abanti Das by 3,261 votes after the initial rounds of counting of votes.

Suraj secured 18,181 votes in the first four rounds of counting, while BJD candidate Abanti Das bagged 14,920.Congress nominee Baba Harekrushna Sethi got 557 votes.

In Bihar, the RJD has established a lead in Mokama constituency, while the BJP is ahead in Gopalganj, Election Commission trends revealed.

In Mokama, Neelam Devi of the RJD is ahead of BJP’s Sonam Devi by 12,152 votes.

Kusum Devi of the BJP has taken a lead over Mohan Prasad Gupta of the RJD by 637 votes, EC trends showed.

After the first round of counting for the byelection to Andheri (East) Assembly seat in Mumbai, Latke had established a comfortable lead.She has polled 4,277 votes out of the 5,624 votes counted so far, an official said.

The bypolls in the seven seats were held on 3 November.

With inputs from agencies

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