The BJP has retained the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat while Samajwadi party is ahead in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, TRS in Medak Lok Sabha seat. The counting began this morning.
In Uttar Pradesh, out of 11 Vidhan Sabha seats, ruling Samajwadi Party has won seven seats and is leading on one, BJP has won one seat while leading on two . AIR correspondent reports that on lone Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, the Samajwadi Party candidate has taken a lead of over one lakh 50 thousand votes. These by- elections were being dubbed as semifinal to the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections in the state. Ruling Samajwadi Party is overjoyed by the mandate it got today after a drubbing in recent Lok Sabha elections. Chief Minister Akhilesh yadav said that people have voted for the development in the state and they have once again refused the divisive politics of BJP. The decision of fielding no candidate by BSP seemingly worked in favour of Samajwadi Party. The BJP seems to have come on the backfoot as all the Vidhan Sabha seats were vacated by BJP and its ally Apnadal. The BJP has refused the results of these election to be the peoples verdict on Modi's government.
In Gujarat, BJP has won prestigious Vadodara Loksabha seat vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP candidate Ranjanben Bhatt has won Vadodara Loksabha seat by more than 3 lakh votes over her nearest Congress rival Narendra Rawat. On nine assembly seats, the BJP won six seats, while the Congress has won three seats. AIR Correspondent reports, the Congress has snatched Khambhaliya, Mangrol and Deesa Assembly seats from BJP, while BJP retained Maninagar, Talaja and Tankara, Limkheda, Anand and Matar Assembly seats.
In Medak Lok Sabha bye elections, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is heading for a victory. TRS party candidate K Prabhakar Reddy is leading by a huge margin of 3 lakh 19 thousand 796 votes over his nearest congress rival Sunita Lakshma Reddy at the end of 16 th round of counting at 1.15 PM. The counting of votes is going on. The result is likely to be announced by evening.
In Rajashtan, all four results have been declared.Congress won three and BJP won in one seat. In Surajgarh, Congress candidate Shravan Kumar defeated Dr Digambar Singh of BJP with a margin of 3270 votes and in Weir Congress Candidate Bhajanlal defeated his nearest rival of BJP Gangaram Koli with a margin of 25,108 votes. In Nasirabad, Ramnarayan Gurjar of Congress has won with his nearest rival of BJP Sariga Gena with a margin of 386 votes.In Kota South assembly seat, BJP candidate Sandip Sharma defeated his nearest rival of Congress candidate Shivkant Nandwana with a margin of more than 25,000 votes.
In West Bengal, BJP candidate Mr.Shamik Bhattacharjee has won in Basirhat South assembly by-election. Mr.Bhattacharjee defeated his nearest Trinamool Congress candidate Mr.Dependu Biswas over a margin of 1400 votes while the ruling Trinamool Congress has retained the Chowringhee seat in Kolkata.AIR Kolkata correspondent reports that the BJP has opened its account in the state assembly after 15 years.
In Andhra Pradesh, Tangirala Soumya of Telugu Desam Party has won the by-elections for Nandigama Assembly Constituency.Two other independent candidates K. Pullaiah got 941 votes while M. Pulla Rao secured 647 votes, while NOTA had 1,177 votes.
In Assam, out of three assembly seats, Congress candidate Rajdip Gwala won the Lakhipur seat by 9172 votes. Official announcement is yet to come. In Silchar BJP's Dilip Paul is leading by 36,000 votes. In Jamunamukh assembly constituency, All India United Democratic Front candidate Abdur Rahim Ajmal is leading by 19,000 votes.
In Sikkim, an Independent Candidate Rup Narayan Chamling has won the Bye-Election of Rangang-Yangang seat in south district with margin of 706 votes. He has defeated the Sikkim Democratic Front candidate Kumari Manger. While the BJP candidate Bikas Basnet secured third position. Rup Narayan Chamling who is the younger brother of the Chief Minister, Pawan Chamling has got total 4749 votes.
