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New Delhi: INDIA bloc won at least six seats and was leading in four , while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged one seat as votes were counted for the bypolls in 13 assembly seats across seven states on Saturday, July 13.
Among the 13 assembly seats, the Congress, which won 99 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, was leading in two seats of Uttarakhand.
The party won Dehra assembly seat in Himachal Pradesh, where it had fielded chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur.
Meanwhile, the INDIA bloc’s partner Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which fielded candidate Mohinder Bhagat from Punjab’s Jalandhar West, won the seat, defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of more than 37,000 votes.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI) data, the Trinamool Congress, led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, has won three assembly seats including Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakhisn. The party had taken the lead over its rival in Maniktala assembly segment. The bypolls for these four assembly seats were held on July 10. Otherside, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Anniyur Siva was leading in Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi assembly constituency.
In Himachal Pradesh, Congress candidates – chief minister 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 won 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.
In Rupauli seat of Bihar, independent candidate Shankar Singh was leading and his closest rival for the seat was Janata Dal (United) candidate Kaladhar Mandal.
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