Datia, Aug. 3 -- Congress candidate Ghanshyam Singh on Monday said he is confident of winning the Datia Assembly by-election by 12,000 to 15,000 votes, as he continued to lead over BJP's Ashutosh Tiwari after 11 of 15 rounds of counting.

Speaking to ANI, Singh said, "I said that the lead will now continue to increase more rapidly, and I will win by 12,000 to 15,000 votes, and I stand by that. Six rounds are left, and in those, our lead will increase further. There's only one round, the last round, where our party is a bit weak, but even then we will be almost equal or will be behind by just one or two thousand votes, only in that last round."

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