New Delhi:
The by-election results today are a mixed bag for the BJP. The party made its electoral debut in the Manipur assembly, winning both by-polls in the north eastern state but lost the Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha seat to the Congress in Madhya Pradesh. Results have been declared for two Lok Sabha seats and five assembly seats across four states.
Here are the latest developments:
The BJP's Khumukcham Joykishan defeated the Congress party's Jyotin Waikhom in Thangmeiband by over 1700 votes while his party colleague Thongam Biswajit Singh defeated the Congress's Bijoy Koingjam in Thongju.
The BJP now has two legislators in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. The Congress rules the state.
Lok Sabha by-election results for the Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh come as a setback for the BJP. It has lost the seat to the Congress by over 80,000 votes. The Congress now has 45 members in the Lok Sabha.
The death of BJP leader and sitting MP Dilip Singh Bhuria in June prompted the bypoll in Jhabua Ratlam. The BJP fielded his daughter and sitting MLA from Petlawad, Nirmala Bhuria.
The Congress candidate, the former state unit president Kantilal Bhuria, makes a comeback in the by-election after losing the assembly election to Ms Bhuria exactly one year ago.
The Jhabua-Ratlam contest saw Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan hold 27 rallies in six days to ensure BJP' victory here. The BJP had won the Lok Sabha seat for the first time ever in 2014 when the BJP swept 27 of the 29 seats in the state.
In the Dewas assembly in Madhya Pradesh the BJP's Gayatri Raje Puar defeated the Congress's Jai Prakash Shastri. The seat had fallen vacant on the death of legislator Tukojirao Pawar, also of the BJP.
In Telangana, TRS candidate Dayakar Pasunoori won the Warangal Lok Sabha seat by a huge margin of more than 4,50,000 votes. The win comes as a booster for the first government led by the party in India's newest state.
Lal Thanzara of the Congress retained the Aizwal North III seat in Mizoram.
Diosstarness Jyndiang of the Hill State People's Democratic Party won Nongstoin in Meghalaya. Party chief Hoping Stone Lyngdoh who held the seat had died in September prompting the by-election.
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