Bharatiya Janata Party’s Raipur lok Sabha seat candidate Ramesh Bais was leading in all the areas in his constituency except Abhanpur-Aarang according to trends during the counting on Friday as it reached near the climax.
As such the sitting MP had been maintaining the lead over his rival Congress’s Satyanarayan Sharma, although the contest has been tough. In the eleventh round, Bais maintained a lead in Aarang constituency.
Enthusiastic over his lead, the BJP workers started shouting slogans in favour of the BJP’s prime minister candidate Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party while the Congress workers started disappearing from the scene.
The counting for Raipur-North, Raipur-South, Raipur-West , Raipur-rural , Abhanpur, Arang, Dharsiwa assembly seats of Raipur lok Sabha constituency was underway at the counting centre established at Government Engineering College in Sejbahar. As the counting progressed and Bais started taking lead, workers of other political parties were demoralised.
In the first round Bais got 40,228 votes while the Congress, his nearest rival received 30,433 votes. In the second round Bais got 38450 votes while his rival got 29359 votes.