New Delhi: Following the counting of Assembly bypolls in seven states in the country, the INDIA bloc parties won 10 out of 13 seats, while BJP won only 2. The overall results suggested voters decided to favour the ruling parties in the seven states, The Indian Express reported.
As for ruling parties, the Trinamool Congress won all four seats that went into polls in West Bengal, Congress won two of the three in Himachal Pradesh, the Aam Aadmi Party, BJP, and DMK won the single seats in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu respectively.
In Uttarakhand and Bihar, the ruling BJP and JD(U). When Congress won the two in Uttarakhand, an Independent won the single seat in Bihar.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur won the Dehra Assembly seat by a margin of 9,399 votes. In the 68-membered Himachal Pradesh Assembly,
In Tamil Nadu, the ruling DMK candidate, Anniyur Siva, won the Vikravandi seat by a margin of 67,757 votes.
In West Bengal, TMC showed its prowess, wresting three seats from BJP. However, the Left-Congress alliance was a disaster there. Three of the four seats lay vacant after three BJP MLAs resigned to contest in the Lok Sabha polls. In all the four seats, TMC candidates won comfortably.
BJP’s Kamlesh Pratap Shah won the Amarwara seat by a margin of 3,027 votes in Madhya Pradesh
Congress made a comeback in Uttarakhand after three consecutive whitewashes following the Lok Sabha elections, TIE reports. The national party won Badrinath and Manglaur Assembly seats here.