New Delhi: Counting of votes for three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi where by-elections were held Thursday will begin at 8am on Sunday. The fate of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha is also sealed in a ballot box.
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Tripura has the highest number of four seats and Saha needs to win this election to continue as the chief minister. He is a Rajya Sabha member who was sworn in last month after the then chief minister Biplab Deb’s sudden resignation. Polling in Tripura on Thursday was the highest at 76.62%. The Lok Sabha by-elections were held in Rampur and Azamgarh constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and Sangrur in Punjab. The other constituencies where assembly by-elections were held were Rajinder Nagar in Delhi, Mandar in Jharkhand’s Ranchi district and Atmakuru in Andhra Pradesh.