<div align="justify">The Congress today won the Chitrakoot Assembly by-poll in Madhya Pradesh with its candidate Nilanshu Chaturvedi defeating his nearest BJP rival Shankar Dayal Tripathi by a margin of 14,133 votes.<br /><br />While Chaturvedi polled 66,810 votes, Tripathi got 52,677 votes, returning officer A P Dwivedi said.<div align="justify"><br />The counting of votes polled in the November 9 by-election began at around 8 am amid tight security in Satna district, around 400km from here.</div><div align="justify"><br />Around 65 per cent voting was recorded in the by-poll necessitated following the death of sitting Congress MLA Prem Singh (65).</div><div align="justify"><br />Singh had won the assembly constituency, bordering Uttar Pradesh, in 1998, 2003 and 2013 elections.</div><div align="justify"><br />However, he had lost the seat to BJP's Surendra Singh Gaharwar in the 2008 polls. Though 12 candidates contested the by-election, the fight was on between Chaturvedi and Tripathi. <br /></div></div>
<div align="justify">The Congress today won the Chitrakoot Assembly by-poll in Madhya Pradesh with its candidate Nilanshu Chaturvedi defeating his nearest BJP rival Shankar Dayal Tripathi by a margin of 14,133 votes.<br /><br />While Chaturvedi polled 66,810 votes, Tripathi got 52,677 votes, returning officer A P Dwivedi said.<div align="justify"><br />The counting of votes polled in the November 9 by-election began at around 8 am amid tight security in Satna district, around 400km from here.</div><div align="justify"><br />Around 65 per cent voting was recorded in the by-poll necessitated following the death of sitting Congress MLA Prem Singh (65).</div><div align="justify"><br />Singh had won the assembly constituency, bordering Uttar Pradesh, in 1998, 2003 and 2013 elections.</div><div align="justify"><br />However, he had lost the seat to BJP's Surendra Singh Gaharwar in the 2008 polls. Though 12 candidates contested the by-election, the fight was on between Chaturvedi and Tripathi. <br /></div></div>