New Delhi: The voting for the bypoll within the Damoh assembly seat of Madhya Pradesh started on Saturday (April 17, 2021) the place a complete of twenty-two candidates are within the fray.
The polling began at 7 AM and can conclude at 7 PM.
The essential contest within the Damoh assembly seat is between Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Rahul Lodhi and Congress’ Ajay Tandon.
This is pertinent to notice that the bypoll has been necessitated as Lodhi, who received from Damoh on a Congress ticket in 2018, resigned from the assembly and the get together in October 2020, simply forward of the November 3 by-elections on over two dozen seats, and joined the BJP.
On the opposite hand, Congress’ Tandon had earlier contested from the seat twice unsuccessfully towards senior BJP senior chief and former minister Jayant Mallaiya.
Campaigning for Lodhi was led by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia and state BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma, whereas, Congress senior leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh, amongst others, sought votes for Ajay Tandon.
As per officers, a complete of two,39,709 voters, together with 1,15,408 girls, are eligible to train their franchise at 359 polling cubicles.
The counting of votes will happen on May 2.
Madhya Pradesh had earlier witnessed bypolls on 28 assembly seats in November in 2020, the place over 25 of those seats fell vacant after their sitting Congress MLAs switched sides and joined the BJP after a revolt led by Jyotiraditya Scindia. Out of the 28 seats, the BJP had received 19 and Congress took 9.
