The Mini India

Port Blair, May 23: The counting of votes for the lone parliamentary seat from Andaman & Nicobar constituency was taken up at JNRM campus this morning. As expected well in advance, it turned out to be a two-horse race between the Indian National Congress and the BJP candidates. The BJP candidate Vishal Jolly took the lead right from the first round. He maintained the lead round after round up to the 12th round causing a scare of defeat in the hearts of the Congress candidate Kuldeep Rai Sharma and his supporters. But, when everyone in the Congress party thought it a lost game, after trailed all through from Diglipur to Port Blair, in the 13th round of counting it was Little Andaman which came to the rescue of the luck come to the trailing candidate Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma. Kuldeep who was trailing by about 10000 votes, reduced the lead to about 3000. With the remaining two rounds being Nicobar and Campbell Bay, which are traditionally considered a Congress stronghold, the