NEW DELHI: The opposition INDIA bloc is on cloud nine on Saturday after winning 10 out of 13 Assembly seats which went to polls across seven states. The impressive performance comes close on the heels of the opposition front posing a stiff challenge to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.This time, the BJP could manage to win only two seats while an independent candidate won one seat as votes were counted on Saturday.The Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), AAP and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) are the INDIA bloc parties that fielded candidates in the bypolls held on Wednesday.AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat won the Jalandhar West seat in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur won in Dehra and TMC’s Krishna Kalyani in West Bengal’s Raiganj.In Punjab, Bhagat won the Jalandhar West seat by defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of 37,325 votes, the Election Commission (EC) said.The seat fell vacant after Angural resigned as the AAP legislator and joined the BJP in March.In Uttrakhand, the Congress party has secured a resounding victory in the by-elections held in both Badrinath and Manglaur assembly seats. As soon as the results were declared Congress workers erupted in joy, celebrating the party’s twin wins with great fervour.In Tamil Nadu, DMK’s Anniyur Siva defeated PMK’s Anbumani C in the Vikravandi assembly seat.TMC’s Kalyani defeated BJP’s Manas Kumar Ghosh by a margin of 50,077 votes to win the Raiganj assembly seat, one of the four constituencies where bypolls were held in West Bengal.The party’s other candidates Mukut Nami Adhikari, Madhuparna Tahkur and Supti Pandey won the Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala seats.In Himachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur defeated her nearest rival, BJP’s Hoshiyar Singh, by a margin of 9,399 votes to win the Dehra assembly seat.BJP’s Kamslesh Pratap Shahi won the Hamirpur seat in Madhya Pradesh.(With inputs from ENS)
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