Voting for the by-election to Damoh meeting seat in Madhya Pradesh, the place the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress are locked in a battle, started at 7 am on Saturday. People had been seen standing in queues exterior the polling cubicles, ready for their flip to solid their vote. White circles had been drawn on the bottom for the voters to keep up social distancing. “All COVID-19 guidelines are being strictly followed,” an official stated.
A complete of twenty-two candidates are within the fray, however the principle contest is between Rahul Lodhi of the BJP and Ajay Tandon of the Congress. The bypoll was necessitated as Lodhi, who had received from Damoh on a Congress ticket in 2018, resigned from the meeting in addition to the celebration in October 2020 and joined the BJP. He had resigned simply forward of the November 3 by-elections to over two dozen seats within the state.
Tandon had earlier contested from the seat twice unsuccessfully in opposition to senior BJP chief and former minister Jayant Mallaiya. But now, Lodhi has changed Mallaiya because the BJP candidate from the seat. A complete of two,39,709 voters, together with 1,15,408 girls, are eligible to train their franchise at 359 polling cubicles, the official stated.
Voting will finish at 7 pm, he stated, including that the counting of votes will happen on May 2. The state had witnessed bypolls to twenty-eight meeting seats in November final yr. As many as 25 of those seats fell vacant after their sitting Congress MLAs switched sides and joined the BJP after a revolt led by senior chief Jyotiraditya Scindia. Of the 28 seats, the BJP had received 19, whereas the Congress had bagged 9.
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