Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Two seats—Budhni in Sehore and Vijaypur in Sheopur—voted to elect their respective leaders in byelections held on November 13. The vote counting has already started in these two seats on Saturday morning, and the final results are expected by evening.
Vijapur turned violent on polling day
Shivraj’s Budhni witnessed a fight between Congress’ Rajkumar Patel and BJP’s Ramakant Bhargava. Similarly, Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra is giving a tough fight to the BJP’s Ramnivas Rawat in Vijaypur.
Several incidents of violence were reported from both the assembly constituencies on the day of voting. Gunshots were fired, and hoogli.sim was reported in Vijaypur as the people queued up to exercise their franchise.
After the voting concluded, some goons entered a village in Vijaypur and set ablaze shanties of villagers and cattle fodder.
Congress and BJP accused each other of resorting to violence to influence voting in their favour. Congress chief Jitu Patwari hit out at the BJP government and accused them of planning attacks by the goons.
“First the goons fired shots; now they are hurling abuses at women and hitting them with lathis,” Patwari had posted on social media, tagging the Election Commission of India. He sought immediate action from the ECI.
Updates at 10:30am
BJP’s Ramnivas Rawat is leading against congress’ Mukesh Malhotra by 5478 votes in Vijaypur.
On the contrary, Congress candidate Rajkumar Patel is leading by 953 votes in Budhni seat, giving a neck-to neck fight to BJP’s Ramakant Bhargava.
Updates at 12:15pm
After 12th round of voting, Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra takes lead by 663 votes against BJP’s Ramnivas Rawat
