Uttarakhand bypoll result: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained the Bageshwar Assembly constituency in Uttarakhand after party's Parwati Dass defeated Congress candidate Basant Kumar by over 2,405 votes. According to Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal, Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes. This is the fifth time in a row that the BJP has bagged the seat.
A bypoll to the seat was held on September 5 with 55.44 per cent of the electorate casting their vote.
Parvati Dass is the wife of former MLA Chandan Ram Dass
The BJP fielded Parvati Dass while the Congress has pitted Basant Kumar against her. Dass is the wife of Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year necessitated the bypoll. He had won from the seat four times since 2007.
Five candidates were in the fray in Bageshwar Assembly seat. There was a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress party. However, the Samajwadi Party (SP) which is an ally of the I.N.D.I.A bloc, interestingly fielded a candidate making the fight triangular. The Akhilesh Yadav-led SP fielded Bhagwati Prasad Trikoti, who had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
Bageshwar Assembly constituency
The Bageshwar Assembly constituency in Uttarakhand was represented by BJP leader and Minister Chandan Ram Dass four times in a row from 2007 to 2023. Dass won the seat in the 2023 Uttarakhand Assembly Elections by defeating Congress party's Ranjeet Das with a margin of 12,141 votes. Chandan Ram received 32,211 votes (43.14%) against Ranjeet Das's 20,070 votes (26.88%). Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Basant Kumar got 16,109 votes (21.57%) and stood third. The bypoll was necessitated after the death of Chandan Ram Dass. The BJP has fielded Parwati Dass, the wife of Chandan Ram Dass, as its candidate. AAP's Basant Kumar joined the Congress party and contested against Parwati Dass.
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