Raipur, Nov 10 (Inditop.com) Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress were Tuesday locked in a close contest in the Vaishali Nagar assembly seat as officials counted votes cast in the by-election last week.
BJP’s Jageshwar Sahu who was leading till the 11th round was trailing by about 600 votes at the end of 15 rounds of counting. Just one round of counting was left, election officials said.
The counting of votes started in Durg town, some 40 km from here, at 8 a.m.
About 52 percent of the 211,000 electorate voted Saturday. The by-election followed BJP legislator Saroj Pandey’s election to the Lok Sabha in May.
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