New Delhi. By-elections were held on 31 assembly seats in 10 states of the country and Wayanad seat in Kerala. Voting ended at 5 pm on Wednesday. Barring isolated incidents, voting was peaceful. Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has contested the Wayanad seat. Priyanka was competing against CPI’s Satyan Mokeri and BJP’s Navya Haridas on the seat vacant due to Rahul Gandhi’s resignation. Rahul Gandhi went to Wayanad to campaign for four days and was in Kerala on the day of voting also. Voting for Palakkad assembly seat in Kerala will be held on November 20. The results will come on 23 November.
During voting on Wednesday, November 13, some people threw bombs and fired at Trinamool Congress leader Ashok Sahu in Jagatdal area of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. He died in this. He has been the ward president of Trinamool Congress. On the other hand, in Deoli Uniara seat of Rajasthan, Congress rebel and independent candidate Naresh Meena slapped SDM Amit Chaudhary. Meena Samravata was trying to forcefully enter the polling station and got angry when he was stopped.
There was a clash between two parties regarding voting in Tarari assembly seat of Bihar. Six people have been injured in the fighting between the two groups. A young man’s head exploded. The police had to conduct a flag march here. More than 70 percent voting took place in both Budhni and Vijaypur seats of Madhya Pradesh. Of the seven seats in Rajasthan, more than 70 percent voting took place in Ramgarh and Khinvsar. Raipur South seat of Chhattisgarh saw the lowest turnout of 46 percent and Channapatna seat of Karnataka saw more than 84 percent voting.