RESULTS @ 6:35PM BJP candidate Ramakant Bhargava won the Budhni bypolls with 13,901 votes, defeating Congress’ Rajkumar Patel.
Updates at 4pm:
BJP candidate Ramakant Bhargava is leading with 74,911 votes in Budhni after 98th round of vote counting. Congress' Rajkumar Patel trails behind with 65,138.
RESULTS @ 1:35PM Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra has defeated BJP candidate Ramniwas Rawat in Vijaypur bypolls and defeated Congress' Rajkumar Patel.
Updates at 1:30pm
Congress Mukesh Malhotra heads towards victory as margin increases by over 6000 votes after round 20.
Updates at 1:15pm
Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra maintains his lead against BJP's Ramniwas Rawat by 4545 votes in Vijaypur after 19th round.
Even though Vijaypur is in the final leg of vote tally, counting in Budhni is going at a turtle's pace and only four rounds have been completed here.
Updates at 1pm
Congress continues to lead by a margin of 4747 votes after the 18th round of counting in Vijaypur.
Updates at 12:30pm
After maintaining lead in first three round, Congress candidate Rajkumar Patel is trailing behind BJP's Ramakant Bhargava in Budhni in round 4.
Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra took lead in Vijaypur by 1842 votes. He received 76,191 votes against Rawat's 74,349 votes.
Updates at 12:15pm
After 12th round of voting, Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra takes lead by 663 votes against BJP’s Ramnivas Rawat
Updates at 10:30am
BJP's Ramnivas Rawat is leading against congress' Mukesh Malhotra by 5478 votes in Vijaypur.
On the contrary, Congress candidate Rajkumar Patel is leading by 953 votes in Budhni seat, giving a neck-to neck fight to BJP's Ramakant Bhargava.
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Two seats—Budhni in Sehore and Vijaypur in Sheopur—voted to elect their respective leaders in byelections held on November 13. The vote counting has already started in these two seats on Saturday morning, and the final results are expected by evening.
Vijapur turned violent on polling day
Shivraj's Budhni witnessed a fight between Congress' Rajkumar Patel and BJP's Ramakant Bhargava. Similarly, Congress candidate Mukesh Malhotra is giving a tough fight to the BJP's Ramnivas Rawat in Vijaypur.
Several incidents of violence were reported from both the assembly constituencies on the day of voting. Gunshots were fired, and hooglianisim was reported in Vijaypur as the people queued up to exercise their franchise.
After the voting concluded, some goons entered a village in Vijaypur and set ablaze shanties of villagers and cattle fodder.
Congress and BJP accused each other of resorting to violence to influence voting in their favour. Congress chief Jitu Patwari hit out at the BJP government and accused them of planning attacks by the goons.
"First the goons fired shots; now they are hurling abuses at women and hitting them with lathis," Patwari had posted on social media, tagging the Election Commission of India. He sought immediate action from the ECI.
