Within the first main electoral battle after the Lok Sabha ballot outcomes final months, the INDIA bloc events, which contested individually in West Bengal and Punjab, received 10 of the 13 Meeting seats throughout seven states the place bypolls have been held whereas the BJP bought two. Total, the outcomes appear to have gone largely in favour of the ruling events within the states.
The ruling TMC received all of the 4 seats in West Bengal, whereas the ruling Congress received two of the three seats in Himachal Pradesh. Equally, the ruling events received the one seats in Punjab (AAP), Madhya Pradesh (BJP) and Tamil Nadu (DMK).
Uttarakhand and Bihar, nevertheless, bucked the development because the candidates of the ruling events – BJP and JD(U) respectively – have been defeated, by the Congress in each seats in Uttarakhand, and an Impartial in Bihar.
The outcomes are a setback for the BJP-led NDA. In addition to holding 4 of the 13 seats which went to polls – three BJP in West Bengal, and 1 JD(U) in Bihar – the BJP had additionally fielded three outgoing Impartial MLAs as its candidates in Himachal Pradesh.
However, the INDIA bloc events contested towards one another in Punjab (AAP vs Congress) and West Bengal (TMC vs Congress/CPI-M).
* In Himachal Pradesh, of the three Impartial MLAs who crossed over to the BJP and have been fielded as BJP candidates this time, just one managed to retain his seat.
The trio – Ashish Sharma from Hamirpur, Ok L Thakur from Nalagarh and Hoshyar Singh Chambyal from Dehra — had voted in favour of the BJP’s candidate within the Rajya Sabha polls in February. That they had later joined the BJP, and resigned from the Home, resulting in the bypolls.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s spouse and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur received the Dehra Meeting seat by a margin of 9,399 votes, defeating two-time MLA Hoshyar Singh Chambyal. The Congress’s Hardeep Singh Bawa additionally defeated Ok L Thakur in Nalagarh by 8,990 votes. The BJP’s Ashish Sharma, nevertheless, retained the Hamirpur seat by a margin of 1,571 votes.
Dehra and Hamirpur Meeting seats are a part of the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency, represented by Union Minister Anurag Thakur, who had led the BJP’s marketing campaign within the bypolls.
Within the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Meeting, the Congress tally has now elevated to 40, whereas the BJP is at 28 seats.
* In West Bengal, the ruling TMC re-established its dominance, wresting three seats from the BJP. Whereas the BJP got here a distant second in all of the 4 seats, the Left-Congress alliance candidates misplaced their deposits in three of the 4 seats.
Barring Maniktala, the place the bypoll was necessitated by the demise of state minister and veteran TMC chief Sadhan Pande, the opposite three seats — Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Raiganj – fell vacant after their BJP MLAs resigned to contest the Lok Sabha polls on the TMC image.
The TMC candidates received by comfy margins in all 4 seats – by 62,312 votes in Maniktala, 50,077 votes in Raiganj, 30,048 votes in Ranaghat-Dakshin, and 33,455 votes in Bagda.
* In Uttarakhand, a month after its third consecutive whitewash within the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress registered a comeback with its candidates, Lakhapat Singh Butola and Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin, successful the Badrinath and Manglaur Meeting seats respectively.
The win in Badrinath good points significance because the Opposition get together has raised the difficulty of the BJP dropping elections in necessary non secular locations after its Ayodhya defeat. The Badrinath seat fell vacant after three-term MLA and former state minister Rajendra Singh Bhandari left the Congress for the BJP, which fielded him as its candidate this time.
In Manglaur, three-time MLA and senior Congress chief Nizamuddin received by a slim margin of 422 votes towards BJP’s Kartar Singh Bhadana. The seat fell vacant after the demise of BSP MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari in October final yr. The BSP fielded Ansari’s son, Ubaidur Rehman aka Monty, who got here third.
* In Bihar, Impartial candidate Shankar Singh received the Rupauli seat by 8,246 votes, defeating JD(U)’s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal. Shankar Singh had lately give up the LJP (Ram Vilas) headed by Union minister Chirag Paswan.
The bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of sitting JD(U) MLA Bima Bharti, who give up the get together to contest the Lok Sabha elections on an RJD ticket. Following her loss from Purnia Lok Sabha seat, she contested the bypoll as an RJD candidate and got here third.
* In Punjab, AAP candidate Mohinder Bhagat received the Jalandhar West seat by a snug margin of 37,325 votes. BJP’s Sheetal Angural was second, whereas Congress’s Surinder Kaur got here third. The Congress and AAP, each a part of the INDIA bloc, had contested the Lok Sabha elections individually in Punjab — a template repeated within the bypoll. The seat fell vacant after Angural resigned because the AAP legislator and joined the BJP in March.
* In Tamil Nadu, the ruling DMK candidate Anniyur Siva received Vikravandi seat by a margin of 67,757 votes, defeating NDA constituent Pattali Makkal Katchi’s Ambumani C. The AIADMK and DMDK had introduced a boycott of the bypoll, which was necessitated as a result of demise of DMK legislator N Pugazhenthi in April this yr.
* In Madhya Pradesh, BJP’s Kamlesh Pratap Shah received the Amarwara seat by a margin of three,027 votes towards the Congress’s Dheeran Sah Sukharam Das. The bypoll was necessitated after Shah left the Congress for the BJP within the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.