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Economic Times | 06 Nov, 2022 | 08:39AM IST
Assembly By-elections News Updates LIVE: Counting of votes from by-polls of seven Assembly seats from six states underway
Votes are being counted today in 7 Assembly seats across six states where by-elections were held on November 3. The seven seats are across Maharashtra, Haryana, Bihar, Telangana, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
The seven Assembly constituencies are: Andheri East in Maharashtra, Adampur in Haryana, Munugode in Telangana, Gola Gokarnath in Uttar Pradesh, Dhamnagar in Odisha and Mokama and Gopalganj in Bihar.
The BJP is in a contest with regional parties such as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) across these states. In Bihar, it is the first electoral test for the Nitish Kumar-led 'Mahagathbandhan' government, formed less than three months ago after the JD(U) parted ways with the BJP.
The election results are mostly a matter of pride and statistics and will not affect the government in any of these states. Counting of votes will begin by 8 am.
The seven Assembly constituencies are: Andheri East in Maharashtra, Adampur in Haryana, Munugode in Telangana, Gola Gokarnath in Uttar Pradesh, Dhamnagar in Odisha and Mokama and Gopalganj in Bihar.
The BJP is in a contest with regional parties such as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) across these states. In Bihar, it is the first electoral test for the Nitish Kumar-led 'Mahagathbandhan' government, formed less than three months ago after the JD(U) parted ways with the BJP.
The election results are mostly a matter of pride and statistics and will not affect the government in any of these states. Counting of votes will begin by 8 am.
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Haryana's Adampur seat sees close contest
Haryana's Adampur seat is witnessing the contest between BJP, Congress, Indian National Lok Dal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Kuldeep Bishnoi's son Bhavya is contesting the bypoll as the BJP candidate. The Congress has fielded former Union minister Jai Prakash while the INLD picked Congress rebel Kurda Ram Nambardar as its candidate. Satender Singh is AAP's candidate.The bypoll happened after Kuldeep Bishnoi resigned from the Congress and joined the BJP. AAP is also trying for a foothold.
Battles in Bihar
In Mokama, the BJP has fielded Sonam Devi against RJD's Neelam Devi, whose husband Anant Singh's disqualification caused the by-election. Mokama is said to be the stronghold of Anant Singh since 2005. He won the seat twice on JD(U) tickets.
In Gopalgunj, BJP has given the ticket to Kusum Devi, the wife of the late MLA Subhash Singh. The RJD fielded Mohan Gupta, while Indira Yadav, wife of Lalu Yadav's brother-in-law Sadhu Yadav, is contesting as Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate.
In Gopalgunj, BJP has given the ticket to Kusum Devi, the wife of the late MLA Subhash Singh. The RJD fielded Mohan Gupta, while Indira Yadav, wife of Lalu Yadav's brother-in-law Sadhu Yadav, is contesting as Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate.
Munugode sees three-way fight
In Telangana's Munugode Assembly constituency, there were a total of 47 candidates in the fray. But the main contest was among three major players - TRS, BJP and Congress. The bypoll was necessitated after sitting MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy resigned from the Congress to join the BJP in August. This time Reddy contested on the BJP ticket. TRS has fielded former MLA Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy and Congress has fielded Palvai Sravanthi.
Andheri East up for grabs
The Andheri East seat in Maharashtra fell vacant after the death of Shiv Sena's Ramesh Latke in May. The Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena faction has fielded Rutuja Latke, the wife of the late Ramesh Latke. The BJP fielded Murji Patel, but he later withdrew his candidature after the party decided not to contest. This will the first election after the revolt in the Shiv Sena by Eknath Shinde and 39 other legislators which led to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.
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The Nets made that move Thursday, banning Irving without pay for at least five games, and a day later, Nike made its decision. Those actions followed widespread criticism — from, among many others, the Anti-Defamation League and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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The change represents the end of Twitter's current verification system, which was launched in 2009 to prevent impersonations of high-profile accounts such as celebrities and politicians. Before the overhaul, Twitter had about 423,000 verified accounts, many of them rank-and-file journalists from around the globe that the company verified regardless of how many followers they had.
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Representatives for Carter's family confirmed the singer's death. They did not provide any immediate further comment.
Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, performed as an opening act for Britney Spears as well as his brother's boy band, and appeared on the family's reality series “House of Carters” that aired on E! Entertainment Television.
Bihar's Mokama and Gopalganj gear up for counting
The two constituencies of Bihar where the by-elections are being conducted are Mokama and Gopalganj. In Mokama, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Anant Kumar Singh was disqualified in July after his conviction in a case, while BJP's Subhash Singh, who held the Gopalganj seat, passed away in August.
Counting in six states
Maharashtra, Haryana, Bihar, Telangana, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh are all set for the final stage of the by-poll to seven Assembly seats
