Shafia Zubair of Congress wins Ramgarh assembly seat in Rajasthan

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Shafia Zubair of Congress wins Ramgarh assembly seat in Rajasthan

With the victory of Shafia Zubair from Ramgarh, Congress's tally has increased to 100 in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly

Thursday January 31, 2019 6:01 PM, ummid.com News Network

Jaipur: Congress candidate Shafia Zubair has won the Ramgarh assembly seat in Rajasthan by defeating her nearest rival Sukhwant Singh of BJP by a margin of 12,228 votes, poll officials said after counting of votes Thursday.

Shafia is wife of former MLA and local Congress leader Zubair Khan.

Shafia bagged 44.77 per cent votes by securing 83,311 votes while Singh secured 71,083 votes, the officials of the Rajasthan election department said.

BSP candidate and former union minister Natwar Singh's Son, Jagat Singh, came third. He secured 24,856 votes, the poll officers said.

In total, 20 candidates contested the Ramgarh election on January 28.

The election to the Ramgarh assembly seat could not be held along with other constituencies due to the death of the BSP candidate ahead of December 7 Rajasthan elections.

With the victory of Shafia Zuber from Ramgarh, Congress's tally has increased to 100 in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly. Its ally - RLD- has one seat thus the government is in comfortable position.

The Muslim tally in the Rajasthan assembly has also gone up to 9 with the victory of Shafia. Congress had fielded a total of 15 Muslims in the December 2018 state elections. Of them 07 had won. Muslim tally in the last assembly was just 06.

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