July 13th 2024.
On Saturday, the Election Commission website revealed that the INDIA bloc parties had won four assembly seats and were leading on six others. Meanwhile, the BJP had secured one seat and was ahead on another, with an Independent candidate also leading in one constituency. These results were from the by-elections held earlier this week, on Wednesday, for a total of 13 assembly seats in various states including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu. The Congress, TMC, AAP, and DMK were among the INDIA bloc parties that had fielded candidates in these bypolls.
In Punjab, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party's Mohinder Bhagat emerged victorious in the Jalandhar West seat, defeating his closest opponent, BJP's Sheetal Angural, by a margin of 37,325 votes. This seat had become vacant after Angural resigned as an AAP legislator and joined the BJP in March. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann expressed his joy at the large victory margin, stating that it indicated the people's satisfaction with his government's work.
In Tamil Nadu, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Anniyur Siva was leading by 58,785 votes in the Vikravandi assembly seat, ahead of PMK's Anbumani C. Trinamool Congress' Krishna Kalyani also secured a win in the Raiganj assembly seat, defeating BJP's Manas Kumar Ghosh by a margin of 50,077 votes. In two other constituencies, Mukut Nami Adhikari and Madhuparna Thakur, both from TMC, emerged victorious with significant margins against BJP candidates.
In Himachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur, representing Congress, won the Dehra assembly seat by defeating BJP's Hoshiyar Singh by 9,399 votes. Meanwhile, Congress' Hardeep Singh Bawa secured a win in the Nalagarh constituency against BJP's KL Thakur with a margin of 25,618 votes. The BJP, however, was able to secure the Hamirpur seat with its candidate Ashish Sharma winning by a margin of 1,571 votes against Congress' Pushpinder Verma.
Moving to Uttarakhand, the Congress' candidates for the Badrinath and Manglaur bypolls, Lakhpat Singh Butola and Qazi Nizamuddin, were leading in both constituencies according to the Election Commission. In Badrinath, BJP's Rajendra Bhandari was trailing by 5,224 votes, while in Manglaur, BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana was in second place with BSP's Ubaidur Rahman in third.
In Madhya Pradesh's Amarwar seat, BJP's Kamslesh Pratap Shahi was leading by 3,252 votes against Congress' Dheeran Shah Invati. In Bihar, JD's Kaladhar Prasad Mandal was trailing by 8,204 votes against Independent candidate Shankar Singh in Rupauli, according to the EC website. This concluded the updates for the by-elections held earlier this week, with the INDIA bloc parties securing the majority of seats.
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