TMC Sweeps Kanthi Dakshin, Vote Percentage Goes Up
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NEW DELHI: The BJP on In a good showing for the NEW DELHI: The United States dropped the Thursday won half of the 10 BJP in Delhi ahead of the civic ‘biggest non-nuclear bomb’ in its arsenal in OUR CORRESPONDENT Assembly seats in by-polls polls, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Afghanistan on Thursday, news agency AFP said across seven states and Delhi the BJP-SAD joint candidate, quoting the Pentagon. The GBU-43/B Massive KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress while the Congress bagged handed down a humiliat- Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), nicknamed the candidate Chandrima Bhattacha- three and the TMC and the ing defeat to the ruling Aam ‘Mother of All Bombs’, is a 21,600-pound, GPS- rya on Thursday won the by-poll JMM one each with all but two Aadmi Party(AAP), whose guided explosive. This is the first time that the from the Kanthi Dakshin Assembly of the seats being retained. nominee Harjeet Singh fin- US has used the MOAB bomb in combat. The constituency defeating her nearest Of the five seats won by the ished a distant third and even target of the bombings is believed to be the ISIS BJP rival Sourindra Mohan Jana by BJP, the party retained three lost its deposit. caves in Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. 42,526 votes. while it wrested the remain- The BJP wrested the Dhol- Bhattacharya got 8,000 votes ing two from the AAP in Delhi pur seat from the BSP with its 2% turnout in repoll in more than party candidate Diby- and the BSP in Rajasthan--Ra- candidate Shobha Rani Kush- endu Adhikari who had defeated jouri Garden and Dholpur wah defeating her nearest Con- Srinagar LS constituency Uttam Pradhan of CPI by 34,000 respectively. gress rival Banwari Lal Sharma votes in the 2016 Assembly elec- The BJP retained one seat by a record margin of 38,678 SRINAGAR: Only two per cent turnout was tion. This seat fell vacant after each in Madhya Pradesh, votes. The ruling BJP retained witnessed in repolling in 38 polling stations in Suvendu Adhikari resigned and Himachal Pradesh and Assam Dhemaji seat in Assam with its Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, officials said. contested from Nandigram Assem- Mamata Banerjee at a function in Murshidabad on Thursday Pic/Mpost Chandrima Bhattacharya winning from Bandhavgarh, candidate Ranoj Pegu defeat- Repolling had been ordered at these polling bly seat in 2016. Suvendu is now the Bhoranj (SC) and Dhemaji ing his nearest Congress rival stations by the EC following large scale violence state transport minister. candidate in last year’s Assembly lenger of the TMC. our work in a more vigorous way.” respectively. Babul Sonowal by 9,285 votes. during Sunday’s polls for the prestigious seat. Chandrima Bhattacharya who election. Expressing happiness over her TMC secretary-general Partha Maintaining its hold, the In Madhya Pradesh, BJP The by-poll result will be declared on April was the law minister in Mamata Left Front-supported CPI party’s performance, Chief Min- Chatterjee said, “The result has ruling Congress in Karnataka retained the Bandhavgarh 15. Barring a stone pelting incident at Soibagh Banerjee’s cabinet between 2011- candidate Uttam Pradhan secured ister Mamata Banerjee said, “This shown that the politics of vendetta retained the Nanjangud and Assembly seat after defeating area in Budgam district, the situation was peace- 16 lost to Tanmay Bhattacharya in 17,423 votes, which is only 10 per is the win of Maa- Mati-Manush”. and communal polarisation by the Gundlupet Assembly seats in rival Congress by a margin of ful in the areas where the polling was held, the Dum Dum North Assembly seat. cent of the total votes polled. Accusing the BJP and the BJP and the RSS have been rejected which the party and the BJP over 25,000 votes. officials said. Miscreants pelted stones at polling Banerjee was upset over Bhat- In 2016, when the Left Front CPI-M of having an ‘understand- by the people of this state”. had played for high stakes. In Ater, Congress’ Hemant station at Soibagh but they were chased away by tacharya’s defeat which took place had fought Assembly elections in ing’, Banerjee said, “I have earlier On BJP’s improved perfor- It also retained the Ater seat Katare defeated BJP’s Arvind the security forces, they said. There was an alter- mainly because of infighting and alliance with the Congress, it had stated that the BJP and the CPI-M mance, state BJP president Dilip in Bhind district in MP by a Bhadoria by a margin of 857 cation between opposition National Congress assured her that she would be reha- secured 34.73 per cent votes. are working hand-in-glove. Some- Ghosh said: “The results show close margin of 857 votes. Ater votes. In Himachal Pradesh, and ruling PDP workers at Badran in Beerwah bilitated. Bhattacharya is now the Congress candidate Naba times they transfer votes to each that the BJP is the only party after had witnessed violence on the BJP retained the Bhoranj (SC) area over allegations of bogus voting, the offi- president of Trinamool Mahila Kumar Nanda managed to get only other. We do not do that. The the TMC whose vote share has polling day. Assembly seat. Dr Anil Dhi- cials said. MPOST Congress. 2,270 votes, which is just 1.3 per CPI-M does it and even at times the increased.” The TMC kept the Kanthi man defeated his nearest Con- The Left and Congress candi- cent of the total votes polled. Congress and the BJP do it as well”. The biggest losers in the by- Dakshin seat in West Bengal gress rival Promila Devi by 97 migrants missing as boat dates were relegated to the third The TMC has increased its vote On the BJP’s finishing second, election were the Left and the where the BJP finished second 8,290 votes. and fourth positions respectively. share by two per cent compared she said, “Who is in the second or Congress whose candidates have while the JMM retained Lit- JMM candidate Simon sinks off Libya Bhattacharya secured 95,369 to the 2016 Assembly polls when third position is not my concern. lost their deposits. The Left Front tipara (ST) Assembly seat in Marandi polled 65,551 votes votes while the BJP candidate its candidate had secured 93,359 The people once again extending and Congress, however, dubbed Jharkhand defeating ruling BJP. against 52,551 votes garnered TRIPOLI: At least 97 migrants went missing bagged 52,843 votes compared to votes. support to us shows that they liked the defeat as the result of ongoing Prime Minister Narendra by BJP’s Hemlal Murmu in after their boat sank today off the Libyan coast, 15,000 votes polled by the party BJP emerged as the main chal- our work. So we have to continue communal polarisation in the state. Modi hailed the performance Littipara(ST) in Jharkhand. a navy spokesman said. Survivors said those missing include 15 AFTER OPPN OUTCRY ON TAMPERING women and five children, General Ayoub Kacem said. He said the Libyan coast guard had rescued All top private telcos to blame for call drops a further 23 migrants of various African nation- GAUTAM LAHIRI alities just under 10 kilometres off the coast of SC asks Centre, EC if less communications between HOUSE PANEL REPORT 2 per cent benchmark, increas- Tripoli. The boat’s hull was completely destroyed a device and the network. The ing complaints on call drops and the survivors, all men, were found clinging NEW DELHI: A Parliamen- panel also observed that in case have been confirmed by sev- to a floating device, he said. AGENCIES EVMs are tamper-proof tary panel headed by BJP MP of the worst effected cells with eral test drives conducted by Anurag Sing Thakur has held more than 3 per cent drops, the the regulator from time to time. MPOST BUREAU all major private telecom oper- service providers did not meet The committee feels that ators responsible for the recent the benchmark in 16 License there are critical gaps in the In today’s harassment of common con- Service Areas under 2G for quality of service parameters NEW DELHI: The debate over the sumers due to the call drop the quarter ending December which need a review. A tech- paper possibility of tampering of EVMs on phenomenon. In a unani- 2016 (Aircel in 11, BSNL in nical paper on call drops in cel- Thursday echoed in the Supreme Court mous report presented to both one, TTSL (CDMA) in one, lular networks issued by Trai ... which decided to examine the alle- Houses of Parliament on the Telenor in two and Vodafone observes that the electromag- CITY gations that these machines were not second last day of the Session, in one).