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Puspham took to Twitter and said that the Bihar Elections have been rigged and Plurals' votes have been shifted to NDA. According to the latest trends, Pushpam Priya Choudhary is trailing in both her seats and Plurals have not opened their account in the Bihar Election Results. On the other hand, Nitish Kumar led NDA is leading the trends and have crossed the halfway mark.
On the Bisfi seat, she had managed to bag less votes than the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
Priya had managed just 121 votes coming in the third position on the Bankipur assembly seat when reports last came in while three-time BJP MLA Nitin Naveen was leading with 2,385 votes followed by Congress candidate Luv Sinha, son of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who had received 1,097 votes. At present, 3,860 votes have been counted on this seat till now.
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From the Bisfi seat, Pushpam had managed just 49 votes when reports last came in. From this seat BJP candidate Haribhushan Thakur is leading with 5,541 votes while RJD MLA Dr. Fayaz Ahmad had got 3,383 votes according to counting trends. Pushpam Priya has bagged less than NOTA votes from this seat. Nearly 181 votes have been cast as NOTA as per the current poll results. At present, 9,802 votes have been counted on this seat.
Choudhary had promised to turn Bihar into Europe by 2030. Her father Vinod Chaudhary is considered close to JD(U) national president Nitish Kumar. Her uncle Vinay Chaudhary is also contesting the Bihar elections.
Results to be delayed till late at night: EC
Amid counting of votes for the Bihar assembly election, the Election Commission of India on Tuesday announced that over 1 crore votes have been counted so far, calling it is a “glitch-free process”. The EC also said that the counting is expected to be finished late tonight.
“Needless to say that there has been an absolutely glitch-free counting process so far. Slightly more than 1 crore votes have been counted in Bihar which means that is significant ground to be covered yet,’ the Election Commission of India said addressing a presser.
Bihar voted in three phases on 28 October, 3 November, and 7 November and the voter turnout in the Bihar assembly election was at 57.05%, slightly higher than the previous election despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.