Kasargod: United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate M C Kamaruddin, registered comfortable victory in the Majeshwar Assembly Constituency’s by-poll elections on Thursday here.

Kamaruddin defeated BJP candidate Ravish Tantri by 7,923 votes while LDF candidate was left back at the third position.

Kamaruddin maintained a comfortable lead right from the beginning of the counting of votes from his opponents. Ultimately, Kamaruddin polled 65,407 votes to manage victory in the election. Ravish Tantri of BJP polled 57,484 votes while LDF candidate M Shankar Rai polled 38,233.

The constituency went for polls on October 21, after the death of former MLA P B Abdul Razzak.

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Gandhinagar (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday submitted his nomination papers for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat from where he is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.

Shah was accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel when he submitted the nomination papers to Gandhinagar collector and district election officer in the state capital exactly at 12.39 pm, considered as ‘Vijay Muhurat’.

The former BJP president had won from the Gandhinagar constituency in the 2019 general elections by a margin of more than 5 lakh votes.

Voting for all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat will be held in the third phase on May 7.