Chandigarh: Bharatiya Janata Party won the Jind Assembly by-election in Haryana, while the Congress kept Ramgarh in Rajasthan in multi-cornered contests, whose results were announced Thursday. With the win in Ramgarh, Congress touched the tally of 100, in the 200-member house.
Shafia Khan of the Congress won Ramgarh by a margin of 12,228 votes polling 83,311 votes. Her nearest rival, BJP’s Sukhwant Singh, got 71,083 votes. Jagat Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished third with 24,856 votes.
“This is a victory of the people. I congratulate the people for this victory. The BJP talks too much and does little. They closed the schools which we had started, they were biased in implementing the social welfare schemes and hence people wanted to come out of the polarized environment they had created. So people have voted unitedly for the Congress,” Shafia said.
Overall, 241 votes went to NOTA (None of the Above).
The election to the seat had been scheduled for December 7 along with the rest of Rajasthan Assembly seats but was postponed after BSP candidate Laxman Singh suffered cardiac arrest and died. The voting was held January 28 and saw high voter turnout. The victory has given the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government a simple majority on its own. In Haryana’s Jind, the ruling BJP won by 12,935 votes. BJP candidate Krishan Lal Middha was declared elected after with 50,566 votes. The winner has tenure of only nine months before the next Assembly polls.
This is the first time BJP bagged the Assembly seat, making a new beginning in the “Jat” land seat.
Jind in BJP’s kitty; Ramgarh votes Cong
