Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her poll debut from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, secured a historic victory with a record-breaking margin of over 4 lakh votes over her nearest rival, LDF’s Sathyan Mokeri, surpassing the record set by her brother Rahul Gandhi.
With polling officially ending at 6 pm, certain booths in Palakkad witnessed queues of voters still waiting to cast their votes.
It has been reported that the advertisement was published before the polls without obtaining permission from the Media Monitoring Committee of the Election Commission.
The high-octane, month-long public campaign for the Palakkad Assembly by-election concluded on Monday evening with grand roadshows organized by the three major political fronts—the Congress-led UDF, the CPI(M)-headed LDF, and the BJP-led NDA.
The Commission asked the district collector for a report of the search conducted in the hotel rooms of Congresswomen leaders.
A midnight police raid at a hotel occupied by Congress women leaders in the Palakkad Assembly constituency on Tuesday triggered protests and clashes between Congress workers and the police. The police claimed the search was for alleged black money, but they found nothing in the hotel.
Additional Sessions Judge R Vinayaka Rao handed down the sentence to Suresh and Prabhu Kumar of Elamannam, the uncle and father of Haritha, wife of the deceased Aneesh.
Though the reporter and the driver of the vehicle could manage to run away to safety, Mukesh was attacked and seriously injured by a jumbo.
They were protesting against the LDF government’s decision to impose Rs 2 cess per litre on petrol and diesel.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced financial assistance to the kin of the deceased in the Uttarkashi and Pauri Garhwal tragedies.
