INDIA bloc member AAP won the Jalandhar West assembly bypoll in Punjab while Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur beat BJP's Hoshyar Singh in Dehra constituency. Other constituents in the opposition alliance—Congress, TMC and DMK—were leading in 9 of the remaining 12 seats where byelections were held earlier this week.
While the BJP was in the lead in Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur, its partner in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the JD(U), was leading in Rupauli in Bihar.
In Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party's Bhagat won the Jalandhar West assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of over 37,325 votes, according to Election Commission officials.
In Tamil Nadu, DMK's Anniyur Siva was ahead of PMK's Anbumani C by 24,898 votes in the Vikravandi assembly seat.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates Krishna Kalyani, Mukut Nami Adhikari, Madhuparna Tahkur, and Supti Pandey are in the lead in assembly bypolls in Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal.
In Raiganj, the BJP is in second place and behind by 41,552 votes; in Ranaghat Dakshin, the party is trailing by 13,428 votes; in Bagda by 18,337 votes and in Maniktala by 20,820 votes, according to the EC website.
Congress' Pushpinder Verma was trailing by 1,545 votes against BJP's Ashish Sharma in Hamirpur in Himachal and Congress' Hardeep Singh Bawa was leading by 4,137 votes against the BJP's K L Thakur in Nalagarh, according to the website.
The Congress' candidates for the Badrinath and Manglaur bypolls Lakhpat Singh Butola and Qazi Nizamuddin were leading in both seats in Uttarakhand.
BJP's Rajendra Bhandari was trailing by 1,935 votes in Badrinath, while in Manglaur, BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana was at second spot and BSP's Ubaidur Rahman at third.
In Madhya Pradesh's Amarwar seat, Congress' Dheeran Shah Invati was ahead of BJP's Kamslesh Pratap Shahi by 3,761 votes, while in Bihar, JD(U)'s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal was leading with 501 votes against Independent candidate Shankar Singh, the EC website showed.
—With PTI inputs
