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Nagaland Lok Sabha bypoll: PDA nominee leading by over 20,000 votes

Kohima: Tokheho Yepthomi, fielded by the ruling People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA), is leading over his lone rival of the opposition NPF by over 20,000 votes after the initial rounds of counting for the lone Lok Sabha seat.

Yepthomi belonging to the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) secured 82,192 votes while
C Apok Jamir of the Opposition Naga People’s Front (NPF) secured 61,626 votes, EC sources said.
The PDA has the NDPP and the BJP as it major constituents.

The Congress has extended its support to the NPF candidate.
The bypoll was necessitated after Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, who is also the NDPP leader, resigned as a Lok Sabha member in February, days before the assembly polls.

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Ranchi: BJP candidate Madhavlal Singh is leading over his nearest JMM rival Babita Devi by 2600 votes
in Gomia Assembly seat after the fifth round of counting, EC sources said.

JMM candidate Seema Mahto is leading over his AJSU president Sudesh Mahto by 3900 votes in Silli Assembly seat
after the fifth round of counting.

The by-poll in both Gomia and Silli Assembly seats were necessitated following the conviction of Yogendra Mahto
(Gomia) and Amit Mahto (Silli) who won on JMM tickets in the last Assembly elections.

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