Madhya Pradesh bypoll results: BJP wins 16 seats so far, gets majority in House

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has to date received 16 seats on Tuesday out of the 28 meeting constituencies the place bypolls had been held in Madhya Pradesh, giving it sufficient numbers to attain a majority within the House and supply stability to its authorities within the state, the place it got here to energy in March.

The BJP was main in a minimum of three extra seats at 10.25 pm, as per the newest outcomes. The Congress misplaced energy eight months in the past following a revolt by a piece of its MLAs.

Voting for by-elections on 28 constituencies was held on November three and counting of ballots was taken up on Tuesday. In the 230-member House, the BJP tally has elevated to 119 (effectively above easy majority mark of 116) with the addition of those 12 seats, offering stability to the Shivraj Singh Chouhan authorities. Before the bypolls, the BJP’s tally within the House stood at 107.

The seats that the BJP has received to date are: Bhander, Bamori, Ashok Nagar, Mungaoli, Surkhi, Anuppur, Sanchi, Hatpipalya, Mandhata, Nepanagar, Badnawar and Suwasara, a ballot official mentioned. The Congress has received Morena, Biora and Agar meeting segments, he mentioned. Prominent BJP minister Dr Prabhuram Choudhary received the bypolls from Sanchi with a margin of 63,809 votes – the very best to date.

The lowest victory margin recorded to date is 161 in Bhander the place BJP candidate Raksha Saronia defeated Dalit chief Phool Singh Bariaya of the Congress. Besides Choudhary, different ministers who received are Govind Singh Rajput (from Surkhi seat), Mahendra Singh Sisodia (Bamori), Bisahulal Singh (Anuppur), Rajvardhan Singh Dattigaon (Badnawar), Hardeep Singh Dung (Suwasara) and Brajendra Singh Yadav (Mungaoli).

The BSP candidate misplaced the bypoll in Morena after main in preliminary states. So far, the BJPs vote share is 49.53 per cent whereas that of the Congress is 40.30 per cent, the official added.

Reacting to the outcomes to date, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan mentioned the end result proves voters supported the choice taken by Congress MLAs to drag down the earlier Kamal Nath dispensation. “It has been proved today that public has supported the decision taken by our MLA colleagues under the leadership of Scindia (BJPs Rajya Sabha member Jyotiraditya Scindia) to pull down the (Nath) government,” Chouhan advised occasion staff in his handle as bypoll outcomes poured in.

Alleging rampant corruption underneath the earlier Congress authorities, Chouhan mentioned the end result is a defeat of “ego and arrogance”. He mentioned the BJP has secured 11 per cent extra votes than the Congress and termed it as an “incredible” achievement. “We won seats with huge margins and lost with thin margins. We humbly accept the victory,” he mentioned.

On the opposite hand, MP Congress president Kamal Nath accepted the defeat and mentioned the occasion made efforts to succeed in out to folks. “We accept the mandate. We made every effort to reach out to voters. I also thank all voters who participated in the by-elections. “I hope that the BJP authorities will care for the curiosity of farmers, present employment to the youth, preserve the respect and security of ladies,” Nath mentioned in a tweet.

In March, 22 Congress MLAs, largely loyalists of Scindia, had resigned from the occasion and the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. This led to the collapse of the Nath authorities and cleared the best way for the BJP to once more come to energy. Scindia and his loyalists joined the BJP, with lots of them changing into ministers within the Chouhan authorities.

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By-elections had been held on 28 constituencies – 25 of which fell vacant on account of resignations by sitting Congress MLAs who joined the BJP earlier this 12 months. The remaining three seats had been unrepresented because of the demise of sitting MLAs. So far, 26 Congress MLAs have resigned and joined the BJP. One of them give up the Congress and the meeting membership after the bypoll schedule was introduced.