NEW DELHI: Non-Congress Parties won six out of eight Assembly seats for which results come in (19 had gone to the polls). The Congress was leading in the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency and in the Assembly constituency of Tamar in Bihar.
An independent nominee Badharao Gracias won the Loutulim Assembly seat in Goa defeating the Congress Antonio Gaonkar by a narrow margin of 500 votes. The Belgaum Assembly constituency in Kamataka was bagged by the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi candidate. Arjun Rao Hishobkar who defeated the Congress Siddhangouda Patil by over 18000 votes.
The Kunigal Assembly seat in the state went in favor of the Samajwadi Janata Party’s Y.K.Ramalah who defeated the congress’s Muddhahanumegowda by over 9200 votes. The Congress however retained the Gadag Assembly seat in the State when its nominee D.R.Patil defeated the Janata Dals S.B. Sankannawar by over 26.000 votes.
The Tanur Assembly seat in Kerala went to a Congress ally the Indian Union Muslim League whose candidate K.Ahmed Kutty defeated the CPMs M.Mohammed Master by over 28000 votes. The Njarakkal Assembly seat in the State went to the congress’s V.K.Babu who defeated the congress’s K.K.Anandakumar by over 4100 votes.
The Budhni seat in Madhya Pradesh was won by the BJPs Mohanlal Shisir who defeated his Congress rival Rajkumar Patel by a narrow margin of 576 votes.
In New Delhi the congress’s Rajesh Khanna had increased his lead over the BJP candidate Shatrughan Sinha to 24503 votes at the end of the fourth round of — counting. The Janata Dal candidate Jai Bhagwan Jatay was in third place. Phoolan Devi who was contesting from a Gwalior jail was nowhere in the picture. The Congress candidate was also” ahead in the Assembly constituency of Tamar in Bihar in the Giridih Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar the BJP candidate Samaresh Kumar had established a narrow lead of about 500 votes over his Jharkhand Mukti Morcha rival at the end of the second round of counting.
Meanwhile the Election Commission ordered withholding: of counting in six Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh Bihar Orissa and West Bengal following complaints of rigging and booth-capturing. The constituencies where counting of votes has been ordered to be withheld are Alagadda and Himayatnaga (Andhra Pradesh) Vaishali and Danapur (Bihar) Malkangiri (Orissa) and Ballygunj (West Bengal).
Congress nominee M.Shashidhar Reddy son of Rajasthan Governor and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister M.Channa Reddy was declared elected from the Sanathnagar Assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh.
In New Delhi jubilant supporters of Khanna had already started celebrating his victory and the Congress nominee himself was seen distributing sweets among those present at the counting Centro in the heavily fortified Pragati Maidau.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 19, 1992
