Assembly bypolls: Counting under way for 13 constituencies across seven States
The Hindu
Counting of votes underway for Assembly bypolls held in 13 constituencies across seven States
Counting of votes for the Assembly bypolls held in 13 constituencies across seven States on July 10, in underway with results expected on Saturday evening.
The Assembly bypolls were held in Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh. Of the 13 seats which went to the polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and Trinamool Congress had each held two, while one seat each had been held by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Janata Dal (United), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Independents held the remaining three seats.
The by-election to the Rupauli assembly seat in Bihar’s Purnea district saw a voter turnout of 52.75%.
The by-election was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MLA Bima Bharti, who had won the seat for JD(U) several times but quit the party recently to contest the Lok Sabha election on an RJD ticket .Following her loss in the parliamentary election, she contested the bypoll as an RJD candidate. The RJD hopes that Bharti will win the seat.
Altogether 11 candidates were in the fray in the bypoll, in which the JD(U) had fielded Kaladhar Prasad Mandal, who had contested the 2020 Assembly polls from the seat as an Independent.
The bypolls for West Bengal’s Maniktala, Bagdah, Ranaghat Dakshin and Raiganj Assembly seats were held on July 10. Raiganj witnessed the highest voter turnout at 71.99%, followed by Ranaghat Dakshin at 70.56%, Bagdah at 68.44% and Maniktala at 54.98%.
A turnout of 78.71% was recorded in the by-election for the Scheduled Tribe reserved constituency of Amarwara in Chhindwara district on Wednesday, the official said.
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has sought a report from the State government on a complaint that the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) had taken up works amounting to ₹387 crore in violation of rules in Varuna and Srirangapatna Assembly constituencies, allegedly on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s oral instructions.
“We are organising a health research convention, which comprises a couple of workshops, community-based learning, and also cardiac care. We also included a one-day seminar on medical education, how medical education has evolved in India and the U.K., and what we can learn from each other” said Dr. Piruthivi Sukumar Dean of the International Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds during his interaction with The Hindu.