Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 11 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW BIDEN’S BHARAT STATES LIKELY TO CUT CAPITAL OUTLAY MIGHTY MI WIN BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH POLICY ON INFRA DUE TO PANDEMIC: ICRA 5TH TITLE BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *Late City Vol. 3 Issue 6 VIJAYAWADA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2020; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable RASHMIKA SINGS PRAISES ABOUT MIDDLE CLASS MELODIES { Page 12 } www.dailypioneer.com BJP blooms in Dubbak NDA RETAINS BIHAR, CONG TRS loses its bastion by a whisker BJP candidate Raghunandan Rao spring a SPOILS TEJASHWI’S PARTY PNS n PATNA improved its vote share from 6.66 If the current trend continues, garnered more votes. While the per cent in 2015 to 9.46 per cent the NDA could end up with the BJP polled 19.39 per cent votes, surprise by by bagging 1,079 more votes The NDA looked all set to retain in this election, its strike rate this 122 seats required for a simple the RJD clinched 23.43 per cent. Bihar after a spirited fight put up time was less than 30 per cent as majority, but there could be many Hyderabad-based AIMIM is L VENKAT RAM REDDY date had by then secured work in favour of Sujatha. by the Mahagatbandhan that was against 66 percent a slip between the cup and the lip emerging as a surprise package, n HYDERABAD a majority of 1,079 votes. TRS appeared to be bogged down by the Congress, last time. with the opposition alliance winning four seats and leading in They declared BJP candi- confident of retaining the even as counting of votes contin- The grand old rapidly closing the gap. one other. The Bharatiya Janata Party date M Raghunandan Rao seat by fielding Solipeta ued well into Tuesday night. party had contest- Not only has the RJD edged It had won a seat in a by-elec- scripted history in as the winner. Sujatha, wife of Ram- As of 11:00 pm on Tuesday, the ed in 70 seats this past the BJP in terms of tion in Bihar earlier, but appears Telangana on Tuesday by While the initial rounds alinga Reddy, whose ruling NDA maintaining a slen- time with its ally RJD numbers to be making significant inroads winning the Dubbak clearly went in favor of the death in August neces- der edge over the RJD-led Grand contesting in the but also in the Seemanchal region which Assembly bypoll, with the saffron party, the TRS nar- sitated the bypoll. alliance, winning or leading in majority seats. In 2015, has a large presence of Muslim ruling TRS losing its bas- rowed the gap by gaining The BJP's cam- 122 seats, the exact number need- the Congress had voters. tion by a whisker. momentum in the later paign was led by ed to retain power, while the RJD, contested in 41 In the triangular con- rounds -- from 13th to Minister of State the opposition alliance's spear- seats. ALLIANCE RESULTS CHANGE test, which saw TRS, BJP 17th. Till the final results for Home Kishan head, in 114 seats. The JD(U) has won and the Congress play for were announced, anxiety Reddy, while TRS Leading the Mahagatbandhan four seats and is lead- NDA 124 -1 high stakes, the BJP pulled gripped both TRS and BJP deployed its mas- fight, Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya ing in 37 places, in a off a victory by a wafer- camps as the voting could ter strategist and Janata Dal looked to have bagged major slide for the MGB 111 +1 thin margin of 1,079 votes have tilted either way. Finance Minister 77, the most number of seats party that had won over the ruling TRS in the In the final tally, T Harish Rao to while the Congress ahead in 19 71 seats when it LJP 1 -1 counting held till the last Solipeta Sujatha polled retain the seats. fought the Target: 122 OTH 7 +1 25th round. 61,553 votes, while seat in a The lacklustre show by the 2015 asse- R Interestingly, BJP was Raghunandan won the fiercely Congress in Bihar seems to have mbly 243 / 243 A leading by 1,431 votes till seat by securing 62,984 fought proven costly for the Maha- polls in AWAITED 0 the end of 23rd round. votes. Congress secured bat- gatbandhan, as it dragged down alliance H ASSEMBLY However, counting had to only 22,054 votes. tle. the RJD too from the government with the I be stopped after the The BJP had pinned formation in the state. RJD. The ELECTIONS remaining four EVMs, in high hopes on Raghun- While the Congress lost VIP has won B which 1,669 votes had andan Rao although he ground in Bihar, it also suffered two seats been polled, faced glitch- had lost the 2018 significant electoral losses in and its can- es. Later, officials count- Assembly and 2019 Lok Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh didates are leading in two ed VVAT slips in two of Sabha elections. and Gujarat, losing a majority of more, while the HAM has the EVMs in 24th and The Congress had field- bypolls in key states that saw the won the Imamganj seat and 25th rounds, after which ed Cheruku Srinivas BJP surging ahead. is leading in two con- BJP's majority was 1,079. Reddy (son of late former In Bihar, the Congress's tally stituencies. Thereafter, officials minister Cheruku dropped from 27 in 2015 to The NDA has won stopped counting of votes Muthyam Reddy), who nearly 20 as per the latest trends or is leading in 122 in the remaining two polled 22,054 votes. available that saw the RJD-led seats, just seven EVMs since there were Raghunandan's victory grand alliance narrowly lag more than the only 897 votes polled in clearly showed that the behind the BJP-led NDA. Grand them and the BJP candi- sympathy factor did not Though the Congress Alliance. Congress requires Our critics got Govt to spend Rs 600 crore a strong reply, Left and Right: overhaul, not repair AIMIM chief Red flag flies high for boundary marker stones PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n HYDERABAD drifting with no clear goal. The SNV SUDHIR party has nothing to claim, The All India Majlis-e- CPI(ML) wins 5 seats in Bihar n VIJAYAWADA Given the outcome of the except the fact that it hap- Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen, which Dubbak bypolls, the Telangana pened to be instrumental in was given tags like 'vote cut- PNS n NEW DELHI 8.30 pm on Tuesday, the Left The State Government will be Pradesh Congress Committee the grant of statehood to ter' and spoiler in the Bihar parties -- CPI(ML) has won spending around a whopping (TPCC), which once again Telangana. It is not able to have Assembly polls, appeared set With a win in five seats and five of the 19 seats they fought Rs 600 crore only to provide failed to make an impact, any demonstrable impact in to win five Muslim-dominat- leads in 11 others, the on and is leading in seven boundary stone markers to the requires an overhaul. Mere rit- politics. Whatever be the elec- ed seats on Tuesday and said CPI(ML) is all set for an seats; CPI(M) which compet- landholdings that are going to ualistic reshuffle is not tion, the party has been tast- its critics have got a befitting impressive performance in the ed on four seats has won one be resurveyed across Andhra enough. This is the gut feeling ing defeat after defeat. reply from the people. Bihar Assembly elections and is leading in one seat; and Pradesh as part of its land- of TPCC-watchers, consider- The TPCC had shifted gears With the election results on whose results will be declared the CPI which contested in six resurvey project. ing that top party leaders, in following the appointment of a knife's edge, AIMIM could late on Tuesday. seats has won one seat and is The State Cabinet that had spite of camping in Dubbak, Manickam Tagore as the play a key role in the forma- Inarguably the biggest gain- leading in two others. met recently has given admin- could not influence the poll TPCC in-charge. However, tion of the next government er in the Grand Alliance, the In the 2015 Assembly elec- istrative approval for the outcome. In stark contrast, the the outcome of the Dubbak in case there is a hung Asse- Communist Party of India tion, the CPI(ML) had bagged expenditure that will be Bharatiya Janata Party, despite by-elections is sure to put mbly, having captured a size- (Marxist-Leninist), often wor- three seats. It had won seven incurred for the resurvey pro- l 70 base stations are across the state, each such having a small force at the chest-thumping Congress able number of seats in the king in the margins of main- seats in the 2005 polls. The ject, which the State required for the survey and a stone costing around Rs 100, ground level, could stop the leaders and cadre in self- Seemanchal region, which stream politics, had 19 candi- party secured six seats in the Government says is taken up few are already being including transportation. The TRS in its tracks, say some defensive mode. was seen as a stronghold of dates in the fray, most of them 2000 election and in 2010, it for the first time in the state in established Government plans to procure insiders in the Congress.