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MP by-polls: Congress wins Lok Sabha seat, BJP assembly
Bhopal, Nov 24 The Congress won the by-poll
held for Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam-Jhabhua parliamentary seat while the
BJP won the Devas state assembly seat as the results were declared on
Tuesday.
Congress candidate Kantilal Bhuriya won the Lok Sabha
seat with 88,832 votes while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate
Gayatri Raje Pawar won the assembly seat by 30,778 votes.
Announcing
the results, Chief Electoral Officer Saleena Singh said the counting
for the by-polls was conducted at Ratlam, Jhabua, Alirajpur, and Devas
district headquarters amid heavy security.
BJP had fielded
Nirmala Bhuriya, daughter of late party leader Dilip Singh Bhuriya, from
Jhabua while Congress had fielded former union minister Kantilal
Bhuriya.
In Devas, BJP's Gayatri Pawar was contesting against Congress's Jai Prakash Shastri in the assembly by-poll.
The death of BJP leader and Jhabhua MP Dilip Singh Bhuria and Devas legislator Tukojirao Pawar had prompted the by-elections.