INDIA bloc member AAP won the Jalandhar West assembly bypoll in Punjab while its other constituents — Congress, TMC and DMK — were leading in 10 seats, and NDA parties in two as votes were counted on Saturday for the by-elections held earlier this week, according to the trends on the EC website and state officials.
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While the BJP was in the lead in Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur, its partner in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the JD(U), was leading in Rupauli in Bihar.
Voting for the bypolls in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu were held on Wednesday.
In Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Bhagat won the Jalandhar West assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of over 37,325 votes, officials said.
The seat fell vacant after Angural resigned as the AAP legislator and joined the BJP in March.
In Tamil Nadu, DMK’s Anniyur Siva was ahead of PMK’s Anbumani C by 24,898 votes in the Vikravandi assembly seat, the Election Commission (EC) website showed.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates Krishna Kalyani, Mukut Nami Adhikari, Madhuparna Tahkur and Supti Pandey are in the lead in assembly bypolls in Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal.
In Raiganj, the BJP is in second place and behind by 41,552 votes; in Ranaghat Dakshin, the party is trailing by 13,428 votes; in Bagda by 18,337 votes and in Maniktala by 20,820 votes, according to the EC website.
In Himachal Pradesh, Congress candidates — Chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Tahkur and Hardeep Singh Bawa — are in the lead in Dehra and Nalagarh while BJP’s Ashish Sharma is ahead in Hamirpur.
Kamlesh Thakur was leading by 7,860 votes against BJP’s Hoshiyar Singh in Dehra, Congress’ Pushpinder Verma was trailing by 1,545 votes against BJP’s Ashish Sharma in Hamirpur and Congress’ Hardeep Singh Bawa was leading by 4,137 votes against the BJP’s K L Thakur in Nalagarh, according to the website.
The Congress’ candidates for the Badrinath and Manglaur bypolls — Lakhpat Singh Butola and Qazi Nizamuddin — in Uttarakhand were leading in both seats, according to the poll panel.
BJP’s Rajendra Bhandari was trailing by 1,935 votes in Badrinath, while in Manglaur, BJP’s Kartar Singh Bhadana was at second spot and BSP’s Ubaidur Rahman at third.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Amarwar seat, Congress’ Dheeran Shah Invati was ahead of BJP’s Kamslesh Pratap Shahi by 3,761 votes, while in Bihar, JD(U)’s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal was leading with 501 votes against Independent candidate Shankar Singh, the EC website showed.
