BJP wins the only set in Andaman and Nicobar

Updates: 5:10 pm: BJP's Bishnu Pada Ray defeats Congress's Kuldeep Rai Sharma by 7,812 votes.

1:48 pm: BJP's Bishu Pada Ray is leading comfortably over Congress's Kuldeep Rai Sharma.

11:31 am: The BJP is leading in the lone seat.

New Delhi: The counting of votes begin on Friday for the lone seat of Andaman and Nicobar islands.

The poll battle was practically a straight contest between the Congress, which won the seat continuously until 2004 with the exception of 1999, and the BJP though there were national level parties like the NCP, BSP, CPI-M, SP and TMC in the contest.

Congress had fielded Kuldeep Rai Sharma while Bishnu Pada Ray, the sitting MP, was the BJP nominee.