Bypoll Leads: BJP Makes Huge Gains In Assam, Comeback-INLD Piggybacks On Farmers; TMC Takes It All In WB, Cong In HP

NEW DELHI: The bypoll results in 13 states and one union territory have shown mixed results. A revival for the Congress is seen in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan while the BJP and its partners are seen performing well in Madhya Pradesh and the northeast.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was involved in an intense campaigning for his party after 4 years but that hasn’t helped the party win the Tarapur constituency in Munger and Kusheshwar Asthan in Darbhanga. The Trinamool Congress has snatched 2 assembly seats from BJP, retained 2 in West Bengal bypolls. In Asssam, BJP and its allies have won all the 5 seats.

Indian National Lok Dal leader leader Abhay Chautala has won Haryana’s Ellenabad bypoll by defeating BJP’s Gobind Kanda, brother of controversial MLA Gopal Kanda, by a margin of over 6,000 votes. The win assumes significance as Abhay Chautala’s estranged brother Ajay and his son Dushyant’s Jannayak Janata Party is in alliance with the BJP in Haryana. Here’s what Abhay Chautala had to say after his victory from Ellenabad seat today.

Congress’s Pratibha Singh won the Mandi Lok Sabha bypoll in Himachal Pradesh by a margin of 8,766 votes against rival Brigadier Kushal Thakur of BJP. The bypoll was necessitated after the death of two-time BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma. Two-time MP Pratibha Singh contested the bypoll seeking votes in the name of her late husband Virbhadra Singh, who was a six-time Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister. Sympathy votes coupled with issues of inflation and farmers’ agitation seem to have paved way for Pratibha’s electoral success in Mandi.

The three seats where Lok Sabha bypolls were held are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. Of the 30 constituencies, five are in Assam, four seats in West Bengal, three each in Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Meghalaya, two in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat respectively in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Nagaland and Telangana.

Of the 29 Assembly seats, the BJP had clinched around half a dozen seats, the Congress won nine, the rest being held by the regional parties.

2021 Bypolls Results Latest Updates:

• BJP wins big in Prithvipur assembly constituency of Madhya Pradesh by 15,687 votes. Incidentally, it had got mere 8% votes here in 2018. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has consolidated Yadavs’ & Kushwahas’ votes in BJP’s favour.

• Final Results of Ellenabad INLD – 65,430 BJP – 58,857 INC – 20,682 Abhay Chautala won by lesser margin. Congratulations to BJP for giving its best performance in Ellenabad. Congress even lost its deposit.
• People’s Verdict on Three Farm Laws is out. Ellenabad has 88% rural population & today results came. During Modi wave in 2019 BJP got nearly 45,133 votes & 29.95% vote share. Today BJP got 58,857 votes & 40.6% vote share despite lower voting. Congress even lost its deposit.
• Bihar Counting Updates..nails biting finish in Tarapur seat.. JDU won Kusheshwar Asthan by 12k votes. It is trailing in Tarapur by less than 500 votes. Heading for a last ball thriller. Congress lost deposits on both seats.

• Congress wins all three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh.
• Karnataka bypoll results: BJP wins Sindgi seat, Congress ahead in Hangal
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• Ellenabad Update Current Trends (13 rounds)INLD – 55,001BJP – 50,421INC – 18,297In Punjabi Belt (Sikh villages) INLD got 1000 to 200p lead in each round. In Bagri belt (Mix Hindu villages) INLD is ahead by mere 300-500 votes.

• Ellenabad Update Current Trends (12 rounds)INLD – 49,827BJP – 45,886INC – 17,004BJP is doing well even in rural areas. Last two rounds were from rural areas & INLD got only 1k lead there.
• TMC has won the Gosaba assembly constituency, is leading on the remaining 3 seats.
• Congress candidate Pratibha Singh has won the Mandi Lok Sabha bypolls against BJP’s Khushal Thakur in Himachal Pradesh.
• BJP wins in Thowra Assembly constituency in Assam. Counting is underway on the remaining four Assembly seats BJP is leading in the other 3 seats.
• TMC minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay wins Khardah assembly seat by a margin of 93,832 votes.
• Ellenabad Update:Current Trends (12 rounds)INLD – 49,827
  BJP – 45,886
  INC – 17,004BJP is doing well even in rural areas. Last two rounds were from rural areas & INLD got only 1k lead there.
• Meghalaya’s ruling party NPP won Rajabala assembly constituency.
• Congress leads in Deglur Assembly constituency in Maharashtra.
• Trinamool Congress candidate from Dinhata constituency, Udayan Guha sets an all-time record of the highest margin wins in West Bengal by defeating his opponent by 1,63,007 votes.
• Congress leads in Deglur Assembly constituency in Maharashtra.

• Huzurabad Counting Update: BJP candidate Etala Rajender is leading by 3,200 votes after 8 rounds. 14 rounds are still pending. TRS so far got lead in only 1 round as booths were from TRS candidate’s village.
• Huge setback for BJP in Himachal Pradesh. BJP is trailing on all 4 seats & even losing its deposit on one seat.
• The results that have come so far have been pleasant & encouraging for BJP. We are way ahead in Khandwa (Parliamentary constituency). I consider Jobat (assembly constituency) results to be very important, says MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
• BJP is doing extremely well in Prithvipur constituency where it polled mere 8% votes in 2018. After 10 rounds BJP candidate Shishupal Yadav is leading by 3,000 votes.
• BJP is trailing by less than 3k votes after 10th round in Haryana.INLD – 40,633BJP – 37,648INC – 14,951Extremely polarised contest. BJP sweeps semi-urban & urban areas.Pawan Beniwal who left BJP & joined INC is distant third.

• Shiv Sena candidate Kalaben Delkar, the wife of former independent MP late Mohan Delkar, has taken a significant lead of around 15,000 votes as counting was underway for the by-election to the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabh seat.
• Congress candidate Srinivas Mane leading in Hangal assembly constituency in Karnataka.
• Congress candidate Bhawani Singh Pathania is leading by over 90 votes in Fatehpur assembly seat.
• YSRCP is currently leading on the lone seat in Andhra Pradesh
• Congress candidates are likely to emerge victorious in Dhariawad and Vallabhnagar assembly constituencies of Rajasthan where counting of votes is underway.

• Mizo National Front leading on 1 seat in Mizoram and is likely to clinch the seat.
• In Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa BJP is now leading by 41,338 votes.
• BJP’s Sulochana Rawat is leading by 6,785 votes in Jobat.
• Congress had taken lead of 1,500 votes in Raigaon.
• In Pritivipur, BJP ahead by 1,560 votes.
• In Telangana’s Huzurabad constituency, BJP has taken an early lead.
• Ruling Trinamool Congress is leading in all the four bypoll seats in West Bengal.

• RJD is leading in the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur Assembly seats in Bihar.
• The ruling BJP is  trailing in Karnataka’s prestigious Hanagal Assembly constituency where Congress is ahead, according to latest trends.

• In Sindagi constituency, the BJP is marching towards victory.
• INLD secretary general Abhay Singh Chautala is leading over his nearest rival Gobind Kanda of the BJP in the Ellenabad assembly constituency in Haryana.