MP bye-election result 2020: People stand in a queue to cast their votes during the Madhya Pradesh Assembly bypolls, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Raisen district, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (PTI Photo)MP Bye-Election Results 2020 Live Updates: With the BJP winning 17 out of the 28 assembly seats in bypolls in Madhya Pradesh so far on Tuesday, the ruling party has attained a simple majority in the 230-member house. The party is also currently leading on two seats.
Meanwhile, the Congress has won eight seats and is currently leading on one.
The BJP has 107 MLAs in the 230-member Assembly, and needed at least nine seats to stay in power. The Congress, on the other hand, was required to win all 28 seats if it wanted to return to power — or at least 21 in order to give itself a chance to bargain with the BSP, SP and Independent MLAs.
The bypolls were necessitated after 25 MLAs of the erstwhile Congress government switched over to the BJP in March 2020, leading to the fall of Kamal Nath’s 15-month-old government. Three seats were left vacant after the deaths of sitting legislators.
A Congress government was elected to power in 2018 after the party won 114 seats in the 230-member House and joined hands with four Independents, two BSP MLAs, and one SP MLA. Jyotiraditya Scindia rocked the boat earlier this year by defecting to the BJP along with 22 other MLAs at first, and then three more. While the Congress’ strength reduced to 88, the BJP, which had won 109 seats in the 2018 Assembly elections, crossed the halfway mark and instated its government under Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
At stake in Madhya Pradesh are the political ambitions of four senior national leaders — Kamal Nath of the Congress, and Jyotiraditya Scindia, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Narendra Singh Tomar of the BJP.
Women stand in a queue to cast their votes during the Madhya Pradesh Assembly bypolls, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Indore district, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (PTI Photo)
Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes for the state by-polls, at a polling station in Raisen district, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (PTI Photo)
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With the BJP winning 12 out of the 28 assembly seats in bypolls in Madhya Pradesh so far on Tuesday, the ruling party has already attained a simple majority in the 230-member house. The party is also currently leading in at least seven seats. Meanwhile, the Congress has won 5 seats and is currently leading in four seats.
Madhya Pradesh health minister Dr Prabhuram Choudhary wins bypoll from Sanchi by 63,809 votes. He defeated INC's Madanlal Choudhary.
BJP– Seats won: 09 | Leading: 10
INC- Seats won: 1 | Leading: 08
Gwalior: Pradhyuman Singh Tomar (BJP) is leading over INC's Sunil Sharma
Gwalior (E): Dr Satish Sikarwar (INC) is leading over BJP's Munnalal Goyal
Dabra: Suresh Raje (INC) is leading over BJP's Imarti Devi
BJP candidate Imarti Devi from Dabra trailing by 615 votes. Devi, a Scindia loyalist, had won 2018 assembly elections with a margin of over 50,000 votes.
Madhya Pradesh Cheif Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan Tuesday said that the bypoll results is a "victory of BJP idealogy" and also credited Prime Minister Modi.
"EVMs are not tamper-proof, and selective tampering is done. There are seats that we would have not lost in any circumstance but we did by thousands of votes," Congress leader Digvijaya Singh was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
"We'll hold a meeting tomorrow & analyse the results," Singh added.
The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh has won two seats out of the 28 Assembly constituencies for which byelections were held. BJP leaders Hardeepsingh Dung (Suwasra) and Narayan Patel (Mandhata) marked the first two wins for the party. It is also leading in 19 other seats.
The Congress office in Bhopal wears a deserted look. The party currently leads in just six of the 28 bypoll seats, leaving little room for a come-back.
Lok Sabha MP and Madhya Pradesh BJP president V D Sharma addressed the media at the party office in Bhopal a while ago. During his press conference, he accused Kamal Nath of betraying the people of Madhya Pradesh by running a government on the directions of Digvijay Singh. He said Nath needed to apologise to Imarti Devi, current minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, for insulting a Dalit beti.
Here are some pictures from outside the BJP office in Bhopal. Celebrations have commenced as the party leads in 19/28 bypoll seats, indicating a possibility it will retain power in the state. (Express Photos: Iram Siddique)
Celebrations have begun at the BJP office in Bhopal as the party leads in 19/28 bypoll seats.
The trends have slightly changed, with the BJP now leading in 20 of the 28 bypoll seats. The Congress leads in 7, while BSP leads in 1. Sumaoli, Dimani, Ambah, Mehgaon, Gohad, Karera and Biaora. The BSP leads in Morena by a margin of nearly 5,000 votes.
The trends for all 28 seats are now in. The BJP leads in 17 seats, appearing to be in a comfortable position to retain power in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress currently leads in nine seats, and the BSP leads in two.
Of the 28 seats, trends for Pohari are yet to be released. The counting is underway, and we are waiting for the tally of votes.
Here's a list of the Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalists, who became ministers in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in 2018, and how they are faring in the MP bypolls:
Imarti Devi from Dabra (Women and Child Development) is leading by a narrow margin of 312 votes
Pradhyuman Singh Tomar from Gwalior (Energy Minister) is leading by 1,225 votes
Mahendra Singh Sisodia from Bamori (Labour Minister) is leading by 4,429 votes
Govind Singh Rajput* from Surkhi (Transport Minister) is leading by 5,518 votes
Tulsiram Silavat* from Sanwer in Indore (Water Resource Minister) is leading by 7,026 votes
Prabhuram Chaudhary from Sanchi (Health Minister) is leading by 7,322 votes
Hardeep Singh Dung from Suwasra (New and renewable Energy Minister) is leading by 3,212
Rajvardhan Singh Dattigaon from Badnawar (Cabinet minister) is leading by 17,283 votes
Bisahulal Singh from Anuppur (Food and Civil Supplies) is leading by 4,321 votes
Adal Singh Kansana from Sumawli (Cabinet Minister) is trailing by 2,825 votes
Brijendra Singh Yadav from Mugawli (Public Health Engineering) is leading by 6,200 votes
Suresh Dhakad from Pohri (Public Works Department) is yet to open
OPS Bhadoria from Mehagaon (Urban Development and Housing) is trailing by 1,000 votes
Girrija Dandotia from Dimani (Cabinet Minister) is trailing by 4,800 votes
* Govind Singh Rajput and Tulsiram Silawat had to resign from ministership as the elections could not be held within six months of them switching over to the BJP.
Madhya Pradesh Minister Narottam Mishra tells news agency ANI the BJP will get majority and Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath will return to Delhi. "...BJP has nothing to lose, those who are losing ask them. We'll only gain. I heard Digvijaya Singh's statement. If he's questioning EVM, it means BJP is winning. We're getting majority & the two elderlies (Digvijaya Singh, Kamal Nath) are going to Delhi," he reportedly says.
In the six seats of Malwa region, a stronghold for the RSS and BJP, Congress is leading in two seats, while the BJP is leading in four.
Agar: Congress' Vipin Wankhede is leading by 100 votes.
Hatpipalya: Congress' Rajveer Singh is leading with 651 votes
Mandhata: BJP's Narayan Singh is leading by 3,100 votes
Badnawar: BJP's Rajvardhan Singh is leading by 10,000 votes
Sanwer (Indore): Water Resource Minister Tulsiram Silawat is leading with a huge margin of 7,000 votes. Premchand Guddu, a strong Scindia critic who had left a Congress to join BJP in 2018 only to return to Congress folds ahead of the bypolls, is trailing.
Suwasra: BJP minister and turncoat Hardeep Singh Dang is leading with 3,000 votes
Of the 28 seats in the Madhya Pradesh bypolls today, 25 have turncoats while three are vacant due to deaths. These three seats are Agar (Agar-Malwa district), Biora (Rajgarh district) and Jaura (Morena district). Congress is leading in Agar with 100 votes, and in Biaora with 5,000 votes. The BJP leads in Jaura with 2,167 votes.