Monday, 28 August 2017

Bypoll results highlights: AAP wins Bawana, BJP wins Goa seats, TDP wins Nandyal - 28 Aug 2017

Krishna Yadav August 28, 2017 CURRENT AFFAIRS , National No comments :

Goa Chief Minister and BJP leader Manohar Parrikar won a sixth term as MLA after winning Panaji bypoll, defeating Congress’ Girish Chodankar by a margin of 4803 votes.

The party tasted success in Valpoi too with Vishwajit Rane, Health minister, defeating Congress’ Roy Naik by a huge margin of 10,066 votes. In Bawana, after an initial close contest between Congress and AAP, the latter took the lead and went on to register a strong victory by over 24000 votes. BJP, who was trailing behind both the parties in the beginning rounds, picked up votes in the final few rounds and ended at second place with a lead of 3915 votes over Congress.

TDP candidate B Brahmananda Reddy won Nandyal Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh, defeating YSR Congress rival S Mohan Reddy by over 27000 votes.

Earlier, both the regional parties received zero postal votes. Out of 250 postal ballot votes, 39 were declared invalid and 211 NOTA. It meant both TDP and YSRCP did not poll a single vote in the postal ballots.

Following a string of poll defeats in recently, the Aam Aadmi Party redeemed some lost pride by comfortably retaining the Bawana Assembly constituency in Delhi. The AAP recorded a resounding victory, leaping way ahead of the BJP and the Congress. Ram Chander, the AAP candidate, secured 59,886 votes while the BJP finished a distant second with 35, 834 votes. Congress candidate Surender Kumar trailed closely behind with 31, 919 votes.