Nov 13, 2024 07:35 PM IST
Congress state president Jitu Patwari and BJP state president VD Sharma sat on dharna close to the Election Fee workplace in Bhopal, accusing one another’s social gathering of faux voting and sales space capturing
The voting accomplished with 65% and 67% voter turnout in Budhni and Vijaypur meeting seats of Madhya Pradesh amid delicate violence, protest and allegations of sales space capturing on Wendesday.
Voters stand in queues to forged their votes for the by-elections in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday. (CEOMPElections- X)
Congress state president Jitu Patwari and BJP state president VD Sharma sat on dharna close to the Election Fee of India (ECI)’s workplace in Bhopal, accusing one another’s social gathering of faux voting and sales space capturing.
In Vijaypur, forest minister and BJP candidate Ramniwas Rawat and Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra have been saved below home arrest by police in view of sustaining regulation and order.
The tribal voters of Telipura polling sales space of Vijaypur protested at Veerpur police station and blocked the Sheopur-Morena highway, accusing the Rawat group of attempting to seize the sales space and casting pretend votes. Thesimilar complaints have been made by voters of Andhipura and Khadi village.
Patwari wrote on X, “Democracy is taking last breath in Madhya Pradesh. The Election Commission is requested to immediately take cognizance of this situation and give the voters an opportunity to exercise their constitutional right.”
BJP leaders complained to the Chief Electoral Officer on Wednesday afternoon that supporters of Congress candidate Rajkumar Patel from Budhni have been creating ruckus and threatening voters by pelting stones in Budhni meeting constituency. In Vijaypur too, Congress employees misbehaved with booth-level officers at many locations.
In Budhni, Union minister and former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan left no stone unturned to make sure the win of BJP candidate Ramakant Bhargava because it’s his residence turf. In Vijaypur, six-time ex-Congress MLA Ramniwas Rawat, who joined the BJP in the course of the Lok Sabha election and have become forest minister just a few months in the past, is attempting to save lots of his seat.
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