Yash Goyal
Jaipur, October 24
The ruling Congress government on Thursday raised its MLAs tally to 108 by one more seat as its woman candidate Rita Choudhary won the Mandawa Assembly bypoll by defeating BJP’s Sushila Sigara by a margin of 33,704 votes.
Meanwhile, NDA’s sole partner Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) candidate Narayan Beniwal, brother of MP and RLP convener Hanuman Beniwal, defeated Congress’ former minister Harendra Mirdha on the Kheenvsar seat by a margin of 4,630 votes. The BJP did not field its candidate on this seat and given support to alliance RLP candidate.
Having over two-third majority in the House of 200, the Congress has now 108 MLAs, BJP’s figure reduced from 73 to 72, while RLP maintained at three, CPM-two and others 15.
In January, the Congress had also won the Ramgarh Assembly election (which was postponed in 2018 following the death of a candidate) by defeating BJP’s Sukhwant Singh.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Rita won by a huge margin, while on the Kheenvsar seat the loss margin has sharply decreased to 4,630 as against 55,000 vote difference in May’s Lok Sabha polls in this segment.
The BJP lost its Mandawa seat, which was won in 2018 elections by Narendra Kumar Kheechar, who later vacated this seat after winning the Jhunjhunu LS seat. RLP’s Beniwal had vacated Kheenvsar seat after winning LS polls from the Nagaur seat in May 2019.
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