New Delhi: The Congress has won the Ramgarh assembly seat in Rajasthan in the bypoll held on Monday. The Congress won the Ramgarh assembly constituency with a margin of 12,228 votes over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Congress candidate Shafia Zubair garnered a total of 83,311 votes while BJP’s Suwant Singh polled 71,083 votes. The victory in Ramgarh bypoll takes the Congress’s total number of seats in Rajasthan assembly to 100 in the 200-member house.
Counting of votes was underway in Haryana’s Jind, where the BJP was leading at the conclusion of seventh round of enumeration of the electronic voting machines (EVMs). The BJP was leading with a margin of 9,408 votes at the end of seventh round of counting. The JJP was trailing at the second place while the Congress was at the third position.