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Bypolls: AAP retains Bawana, BJP wins Goa seats, TDP bags Nandyal (Intro Roundup)
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Ruling parties won assembly byelections in three states, results of which were announced on Monday — BJP won two seats in Goa, AAP retained Bawana and TDP snatched the Nandyal seat from YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar won the Panaji seat by a margin of 4,803 votes, as against his victory margin of 6,068 in the 2012 assembly elections.
State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, who resigned as Congress MLA to join the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa, increased his victory margin in Valpoi seat to 10,066 votes from 4,066 votes in the February elections.
Parrikar, a former Defence Minister, was sent back to Goa by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership to lead the state government after a split verdict in Goa.
Parrikar won the Panaji seat for the sixth time. He polled 9,862 votes compared with nearest rival and Congress nominee Girish Chodankar’s 5,059 votes. Anand Shirodkar of the Goa Suraksha Manch came a distant third with 220 votes.
In Valpoi, Rane got 16,167 votes as against his Congress rival Roy Naik’s 6,101 votes.
“I was expecting to win,” Parrikar told reporters after the victory. He said he would resign his Rajya Sabha seat shortly.
Chodankar said he might have lost but was touched by the manner in which Panaji voters interacted with him.
Nearly 75 per cent voting was recorded during the August 23 bypolls in Goa.
The bypoll in Panaji was necessitated by BJP MLA Sidarth Kuncolienkar’s resignation to enable Parrikar contest and become an MLA within six months of taking over as Chief Minister.
In Delhi, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) retained the Bawana seat, one of the 12 reserved seats in the 70-member assembly, by over 24,000 votes, with AAP candidate Ram Chandra defeating former party legislator Ved Prakash, who has since joined the BJP after resigning his assembly membership.
Though the party’s victory margin was less than 2015, the victory came as a booster to the party after its losses in the Rajouri assembly bypoll and municipal elections. The Congress finished third but put up a credible performance.
Ram Chandra got 59,886 votes against 35,834 votes of Ved Prakash. Congress candidate Surender Kumar got 31,919 votes.
The AAP candidate received 45.39 per cent of the total votes cast, while the BJP and Congress candidates got 27.16 and 24.19 per cent, respectively.
Congress had got only 7.87 per cent votes in the 2015 assembly polls. The vote share of both AAP and BJP came down — BJP had got 31.40 per cent votes in the 2015 elections, while the AAP had polled 57.9 per cent.
Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) snatched the Nandyal seat by a huge margin.
TDP’s Bhuma Brahmananda Reddy defeated his nearest rival Silpa Mohan Reddy of YSR Congress Party by over 27,000 votes. BJP’s Reddy polled 97,076 votes while Silpa Mohan Reddy secured 69,610 votes. The Congress finished far behind with just 1,382 votes.
In what was considered a prestige battle for both the parties, Brahmananda Reddy took the lead from the very first round of counting. Except in the 16th round, the TDP candidate maintained a lead till the completion of counting in 19 rounds.
About 80 per cent of the 2.16 lakh voters had cast their votes in the bypoll held on August 23.
In 2014, Bhuma Nagi Reddy of the YSR Congress had won the seat by a margin of 3,604 votes over Silpa Mohan Reddy, who had then contested as a TDP candidate. Nagi Reddy, who crossed over to the TDP last year, died in April, causing the vacancy.
–IANS
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Lucknow: Vishal Singh, a renowned social worker from Lucknow, also known as Foodman, has once again made India proud. He was honored by the Happy Hands Gloves Cooperative Limited Company in Korathai, Thailand, for his work with the Hunger Free World Mission.
The Hunger Free World Mission’s meeting was held in Korathai, Thailand, under Vishal Singh’s leadership. Representatives from several countries, including Mr. Raja Dwivedi (Managing Director of Happy Hands Gloves Limited), Thailand Coordinator Mr. Raja Mishra, and member Mr. Varun Singh, attended the event.
Under Vishal Singh’s leadership, the attendees took a pledge to work together toward creating a hunger-free world.
Speaking on the occasion, Vishal Singh explained that the main goal of the Hunger Free World Mission is social participation. He said the mission is not just about feeding people but also about meeting other basic needs of those who are struggling. The mission focuses on helping families of terminally ill patients in hospitals by providing food and shelter. It also works to fulfill essential needs like education, jobs, and care for the elderly.
For the last 16 years, the Vijay Sri Foundation has been providing free services, benefiting thousands of people. Vishal Singh highlighted that the mission aims to gain global recognition like other organizations such as WHO, WWF, and Red Cross, which work for social causes.
During this meeting, Vishal Singh was appointed as the Chairman of the Hunger Free World Mission by representatives from various countries. They also discussed holding regular meetings in different countries to push the mission forward.
Business tycoon Dr. Abhishek Verma has also supported this humanitarian mission, vowing to promote the idea of “Seva Parmo Dharma” (Service is the highest duty) worldwide. Vishal Singh praised him, stating that people like Dr .Abhishek Verma inspire others to work for the betterment of society.
Recently, Romania’s Ambassador, Mr . Daniela Sezonov Ţane, invited Vishal Singh to the Romanian Embassy in Delhi, where they discussed the mission in detail. Impressed by his humanitarian work, she honored Vishal Singh and invited him to Romania to take the mission forward .
Food man Vishal Singh has been serving the people of India for the past 16 years. Through the Vijay Sri Foundation, he provides free meals to cancer patients & their families ,shelter, and education for women & children along with running free old-age homes in Lucknow.
In addition to his humanitarian work, Vishal Singh also addresses issues like crime and corruption through his role as Chairman of Seva Path Media and Managing Director of Vijay Sri Foundation.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vishal Singh and his team worked tirelessly to provide food and help to the needy, including starving children, elderly citizens, and pregnant women. Despite contracting the virus himself, he continued to assist others after his recovery. He even created a life-saving oxygen regulator using household items, which was praised by doctors both in India and abroad.
In his address at the meeting, Vishal Singh spoke about his mission to create a hunger-free world. He pointed out that India’s large population, along with issues like unemployment and poverty, has caused the country to fall on the Hunger Index. He urged people to contribute just one handful of grains daily to help create a hunger-free world.
He concluded by saying that through social participation, we can empower the people around us, meet their basic needs, and work together to build a stronger, more prosperous, and developed society.
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