July 13th 2024.
On Saturday, the results of the by-elections held earlier this week for 13 seats in seven states were announced. The INDIA bloc parties won a total of 10 Assembly seats, with the BJP winning two seats and an Independent candidate winning one. These bypolls were held on Wednesday in four seats in West Bengal, three in Himachal Pradesh, two in Uttarakhand, and one each in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu.
Among the INDIA bloc parties, the Congress, TMC, AAP, and DMK fielded candidates for the bypolls. In Punjab, Mohinder Bhagat of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party emerged victorious in the Jalandhar West seat, defeating his closest competitor and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of 37,325 votes, as reported by the Election Commission. This seat had become vacant after Angural resigned as the AAP legislator and joined the BJP in March. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann expressed his happiness over the victory with a significant lead, stating that it reflects the people's satisfaction with his government's work.
In Tamil Nadu, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Anniyur Siva won the Vikravandi Assembly constituency by defeating his nearest rival, Ambumani C from NDA constituent Pattali Makkal Katchi, by a margin of 67,757 votes. Moving on to the four seats in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress candidate Krishna Kalyani won the Raiganj Assembly seat by defeating BJP's Manas Kumar Ghosh by 50,077 votes. In Ranaghat Dakshin, TMC's Mukut Nami Adhikari defeated BJP's Manoj Kumar Biswas by a margin of 74,485 votes. Similarly, TMC's Madhuparna Thakur won the Bagda seat by defeating BJP's Binay Kumar Biswas by 74,251 votes, and Supti Pandey beat BJP's Kalyan Choubey by 62,312 votes.
In Himachal Pradesh, Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, won the Dehra Assembly seat by a margin of 9,399 votes against BJP's Hoshiyar Singh. In Nalagarh, Congress' Hardeep Singh Bawa emerged victorious against BJP's KL Thakur by 25,618 votes. However, the BJP managed to secure a win in the Hamirpur seat, with its candidate Ashish Sharma polling 27,041 votes against Congress' Pushpinder Verma, who received 25,470 votes.
In Uttarakhand, the Congress' candidates for the Badrinath and Manglaur bypolls, Lakhapat Singh Butola and Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin, won their seats, according to the poll panel. Butola defeated former minister and MLA BJP's Rajendra Singh Bhandari by 5,224 votes in the Badrinath seat, while Nizamuddin won against BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana by a narrow margin of 422 votes.
Moving on to Madhya Pradesh, BJP's Kamslesh Pratap Shah won the Amarwara Assembly seat by a margin of 3,027 votes against Congress' Dheeran Sah Invati. In Bihar, Independent candidate Shankar Singh won the Rupauli seat, defeating his nearest rival, JD's Kaladhar Prasad Mandal, by a margin of 8,246 votes, as per the EC website.
Overall, the results of the by-elections showed a mix of victories for various political parties across different states. It is yet to be seen how these results will impact the political landscape in the coming days.
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