BJP retains Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand
Dehradun (PTI): The BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes.
Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said.
The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she declared.
Bypoll to the seat was held on September 5 with 55.44 per cent of the electorate casting their vote.
Parwati Dass, who won the seat, is wife of the late Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year had necessitated the bypoll.
Her husband had been winning the seat consecutively since 2007.
This is the fifth time in a row that the BJP has bagged the seat.
The three other candidates in the fray have all lost their deposits.
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260 Gram Panchayat seats to go to by-polls on May 11 in Karnataka
Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Election Commission has announced by-elections for 260 vacant seats across 222 Gram Panchayats in the state. The polling will be held on May 11.
According to the official schedule, the Deputy Commissioner will issue the election notification on April 22, and the last day to file nominations is on April 28. The scrutiny of nominations will be held on April 29, and the last day to withdraw nominations is on May 2.
Polling will be conducted from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM on May 11. In case of any need for re-polling, it will be held on May 13 during the same hours. The counting of votes is scheduled for May 14, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, at the designated taluk centers, and results will be declared following the counting.
