Counting of votes for Karanpur Assembly seat begins
The Hindu
Counting of votes for Karanpur Assembly seat begins in Jaipur, deciding fate of several candidates including BJP's Surendra Pal Singh.
Counting of votes for the Karanpur Assembly seat, where polling was deferred due to the death of a candidate, commenced at 8 a.m. on January 8.
The final tally will decide the fate of several candidates, one of whom is BJP's Surendra Pal Singh, who has more at stake than just this seat.
Counting is underway on 17 counters at Dr. Bheemrao Ambedkar Government College in Sriganganagar, the district under which the constituency comes.
The seat went under polling on January 5, recording a voter turnout of 81.38%.
Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said that counting of EVMs will be done on 14 tables. Two tables have been set up for the counting of postal ballots, in addition to one kept for counting electronically transmitted postal ballots.
The election for the seat was postponed due to the death of the Congress candidate and then MLA Gurmeet Singh Koonar. Koonar's son, Rupinder Singh, was fielded by the Congress from the seat.
Surendra Pal Singh was inducted into the Rajasthan Ministry after the BJP won the Assembly polls, bagging 115 of the 199 seats.