The first elections since the Lok Sabha polls were held in 13 Assembly constituencies spread across seven states through bypolls.
Delhi, New: Bypolls for thirteen Assembly seats are now being counted in seven states. This was the first election process since the Lok Sabha elections, where the NDA passed the halfway mark and the BJP failed to secure a majority.
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On July 10, voting for the Assembly byelections took place in 13 Assembly seats spread across seven states: Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.
The Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, presently holds a four-seat majority in West Bengal. In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, the BJP gained Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, and Bagda, while the governing party took Maniktala. The BJP MLAs later joined the Trinamool.
Many seasoned politicians as well as some newcomers will have their fate determined by the Himachal Pradesh elections. Among them is the wife of Chief Minister and Congress leader Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Kamlesh Thakur, who is leading her BJP opponent Hoshyar Singh in the Dehra constituency. In two additional seats, the Congress is likewise in the lead.
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In Uttarakhand, the Manglaur constituency is witnessing a three-cornered fight in the bypoll, which was held after the death of BSP MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari in October last year. The BJP is currently trailing in Manglaur, a Muslim- and Dalit-dominated seat that has been held either by the Congress or the BSP so far. The ruling party is also trailing in Badrinath.The bypoll in Punjab’s Jalandhar West assembly segment is being seen as a litmus test for Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Mann. The ruling party is currently leading.
In Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi assembly constituency, the bypoll was necessitated by the death of DMK legislator N Pughazhendhi on April 6. It is a triangular contest with ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s candidate Anniyur Siva (alias Sivashanmugam A) leading over Pattali Makkal Katchi’s (PMK) C Anbumani and Naam Tamilar Katchi’s K Abinaya.
The by-election in the Amarwara assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh Chhindwara district was held after three-time Congress MLA Kamlesh Shah crossed over to the BJP in March. The main contest in this Scheduled Tribes-reserved seat is between the BJP, which fielded Kamlesh Shah, the Congress’s Dheeran Shah Invati, and Gondwana Gantantra Party’s (GGP) Devraman Bhalavi. Mr Shah is currently ahead.
The Assembly seats that went to polls were Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal; Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh; Badrinath and Manglaur in Uttarakhand; Jalandhar West in Punjab; Rupauli in Bihar; Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu and Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh. Four of these states are ruled by INDIA bloc constituents while the rest have a BJP or NDA government.
These bypolls were the first since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which saw the BJP winning 240 seats – 32 short of the majority. The NDA, however, managed to cross the halfway mark of 272 with a total tally of 293 seats. The Congress-led INDIA bloc clinched 232 seats.
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