In the third round of counting for the Sardarshahar assembly seat in Rajasthan, Congress candidate Anil Sharma is leading . The counting began at 8 a.m.
Churu (Rajasthan), India, December 8: In the third round of counting for the Sardarshahar assembly seat in Rajasthan, Congress candidate Anil Sharma is leading.The counting began at 8 a.m. on Thursday morning, with a Congress candidate taking the lead at 10 a.m. Congress received a 43.5% vote share, while the BJP received 30,7 percent.Other candidates are able to obtain 22.3 percent of the vote share, while Congress is leading in the third round of counting.In the Sardarshahar assembly by-election, ten contenders are running, and their fate will be decided today.
The BJP candidate for the seat is MLA Ashok Kumar Pincha, a spokesman for the BJP.Following the death of sitting MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma, the by-election was held.In October, a seven-time MLA died in Jaipur at the age of 77.According to the reports, ballot paper postal votes were counted first, and the results were then extracted from EVM machines. Besides, district Assistant Superintendent of Police Rajendra Meena was on the ground.About 2,80,000 people cast their vote at 295 polling booths.On Thursday, the assembly election was called between Anil Sharma of the Congress, Ashok Pincha of the BJP, and Lalchand Mund of the RLP.The count of votes cast during the byelections to Mainpuri Lok Sabha and six Assembly seats in five states began at 8 a.m., as part of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. Pincha is a former MLA from this constituency.He contested the 2018 elections from Sardarshahar but was defeated by a margin of over 16,000 votes to Sharma.The by-election is important because it was held a year before the state elections.Since 1998, Rajasthan has seen the incumbent government run out of office every five years. Candidates for the position have until November 17th, and the result will be announced on December 8.