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Counting is underway for the by-polls to one Lok Sabha seat and two Assembly segments. The voting took place for Belgaum Lok Sabha and Maski and Basavakalyan Assembly constituencies on April 17.
Counting for bypolls to 1 LS, 2 Assembly constituencies underway
Counting is underway for the by-polls to one Lok Sabha seat and two Assembly segments. The voting took place for Belgaum Lok Sabha and Maski and Basavakalyan Assembly constituencies on April 17. There were 30 candidates in the fray - 10 in Belgaum, 12 in Basavakalyan and eight in Maski. According to the Chief Electoral Officer, the counting started at 8 AM under tight vigil.
With massive security measures in place and elaborate Covid-19 safety precautions, counting began at 8am across the state. Photo by S Lenin
CHENNAI: Initial trends in counting for the Tamil Nadu assembly election on Sunday pushed M K Stalin’s DMK in the lead with the ruling AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam not far behind. In the Union territory of Puducherry, the AINR Congress-BJP alliance established a lead ahead of its Congress rival.
In the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha by-election, Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of H Vasantha Kumar, whose death due to Covid-19 caused the vacancy, was ahead of BJP’s Pon Radhkrishnan.
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Pinarayi Vijayan looks at a historic comeback while Kerala’s BJP cadre can only hope for a higher vote share
Pinarayi Vijayan looks at a historic comeback while Kerala’s BJP cadre can only hope for a higher vote share
Pinarayi Vijayan, the Chief Minister of Kerala, seeking re-election.
After the 1970s, the people of Kerala have never voted a chief minister or party back to power. If you want to believe the exit poll surveys, the state’s incumbent Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) may just be able to pull that rabbit out of the bag.