Two assembly by-polls a litmus test for Dhami Govt in Uttarakhand
Being held without PM in the forefront, the result of the by-elections to the Bardinath and Manglaur constituencies will reflect the performance of governance of the ruling BJP.
Being held without PM in the forefront, the result of the by-elections to the Bardinath and Manglaur constituencies will reflect the performance of governance of the ruling BJP.
These elections were necessitated after the State Legislative Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania accepted the resignation of the three independent MLAs, K L Thakur of Nalagarh, Hoshyar Singh of Dehra, and Ashish Sharma of Hamirpur on June 3.
PM Modi urged people to come out and vote in large numbers as voting for`byelections in Punjab , UP, Odisha and Meghalaya commenced.
The BJP won a spectacular victory in Gujarat and is the only party other than the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to have won seven straight Assembly elections in a state.
Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav is leading in Mainpuri with a comfortable lead of over one lakh votes.
Eight Assembly seats are up for polls in Gujarat, seven in Uttar Pradesh, two each in Odisha, Nagaland, Karnataka, and Jharkhand; and one seat each in Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Haryana.
High Court on Wednesday asked that magistrates of the districts under its jurisdiction not give permission to any candidate or political party for public gatherings unless they can prove that virtual election campaign is not possible.
The BJP needed six seats in the 15 seats bye-election to form majority government in the state as currently is has 105 seats in the 224 seats Assembly.
As per a Kannada news channel, Power TV, a minimum of eight and a maximum of 12 Assembly seats for BJP is predicted in the exit polls. For Congress, it predicted three to six seats and zero to two seats for JD(S).
On the basis of its strength of 100 MLAs, both the BJP candidates, S. Jaishankar and Jugalkishor Thakor, are likely to sail through.
