New Delhi: The BJP and the Congress on Sunday had been set to share the honours in the Lok Sabha and assembly bye-elections in 13 states.
The bypolls had been held in 4 parliamentary constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and 12 assembly seats unfold throughout 10 states. Except for the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat and the Malappuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, the place polling was held on April 6, bypolls in remainder of the constituencies had been carried out on April 17.
In the assembly bypolls, the BJP received or was main in 5 seats, the Congress 4 and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) one seat every.
The outcomes, nevertheless, would don’t have any bearing on the speedy way forward for the respective governments.
In Tamil Nadu, Vijay Vasanth of the Congress was forward of senior BJP chief and former union minister Pon Radhakrishnan in the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency.
The bypoll was necessitated following the demise of Vasanth’s father and Congress veteran H Vasantha Kumar final yr due to COVID-19.
Maddila Gurumoorthy of the YSR Congress Party received the Tirupati Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh by beating Panabaka Lakshmi of the Telugu Desam by an enormous margin of two,71,592 votes.
BJP’s Angadi Mangal Suresh pocketed the Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency with Satish Laxmanarao Jarkiholi of the Congress coming second. The victory margin was 5,240 votes.
Abdussamad Samadani of the Indian Union Muslim League received the Malappuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala defeating V P Sanu of the CPI-M by a margin of 1,14,615 votes.
The Congress received two of the three assembly seats in Rajasthan the place bypolls had been held with BJP rising victorious in the third.
In the Sujangarh seat, Congress candidate Manoj Kumar beat BJP’s Khemaram by 35,611 votes whereas Gayatri Trivedi defeated Ratanlal Jat of the BJP by a margin of 42,200 to emerge winner in Sahara. BJP’s Deepti Kiran Maheshwari received the Rajsamand seat, defeating Tansukh Bohara of the Congress by 5,310 votes.
In Karnataka, whereas the BJP received the Basavakalyan assembly constituency, the Congress was ready to retain the Maski seat.
In Basavakalyan, BJP’s Sharanu Salagar defeated Congress candidate Mala B Narayan Rao by 20,629 votes whereas in Maski, Congress’s Basanagauda Turvihal beat his nearest BJP rival Prathapagouda Patil by a margin of 30,606 votes.
BJP’s Nimisha Suthar received the by-election to the Morva Hadaf (ST) assembly constituency in Gujarat by defeating her nearest Congress rival by 45,649 votes. Out of the full 93,179 votes polled, Suthar bagged 67,457 votes, whereas Congress’s Suresh Katara bought 21,808 votes.
In Madhya Pradesh, Ajay Kumar Tandon was main from the Damoh seat.
In a setback to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra, BJP candidate Autade Samadhan Mahadev was forward of his nearest NCP rival Bhalke Bhagirath Bharat in the Pandharpur-Mangalvedha assembly seat.
BJP’s Mahesh Jeena beat his nearest rival Ganga Pancholi of the Congress in the by-election to the Salt assembly constituency in Uttarakhand by 4,697 votes.
The ruling Mizo National Front suffered a humiliating defeat in the Serchhip assembly seat as arch-rival ZPM’s nominee Lalduhoma, whose disqualification necessitated the by-election, retained the seat by a margin of two,950 votes.
Lalduhoma, who had defeated the then chief minister Lal Thanhawla of the Congress in the 2018 assembly polls, was disqualified by Speaker Lalrinliana Sailo final November underneath the anti-defection regulation, following complaints filed by 12 ruling social gathering legislators.
The ruling TRS retained the Nagarjuna Sagar assembly phase in Telangana with its candidate Nomula Bhagath prevailing over Congress rival Kunduru Jana Reddy by 18,872 votes. The BJP candidate misplaced the deposit.
The JMM, which is in energy in Jharkhand, received the Madhupur assembly seat with its candidate Hafizul Hussain defeating Ganga Narayan Singh of the BJP by 5,247 votes.
The by-election in the Pipili assembly seat in Odisha was adjourned following the demise of Congress candidate Ajit Mangaraj due to COVID-19 on April 14. In Nagaland, just one candidate H Chuba Chang of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) had filed nomination for the bypoll to the Noksen assembly constituency and was elected unopposed, the Election Commission had stated.Â
