BJP breaks 31K mark despite lacklustre campaign in Tura

TURA: He was nowhere to be seen except for brief and sudden appearances at a few village corner meetings, yet, the BJP candidate for Tura parliamentary election did manage to cross the thirty thousand mark.
The party candidate Rikman G Momin polled 31707 votes and also overtook both Agatha and Mukul in securing the highest number of postal ballot votes.
The BJP received 313 postal ballots in its favour against NPP’s 270 and Congress’s 185.
According to election watchers, it was the image of Modi, rather than the candidature of Momin, that helped the party to receive a substantial number of votes in its kitty.
In one polling station in the heart of Tura bazaar, the BJP candidate polled more votes than the NPP and the Congress. Rikman Momin polled 204 votes against Agatha’s 192 and Mukul Sangma’s 77 votes in that polling station, taking many by surprise.