New Delhi: The BJP has lost the politically important Kairana Lok Sabha seat and Noorpur assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh in the by-elections that were held on Monday. The Rashtriya Lok Dal won the Kairana seat, in a big boost to the opposition unity. The BJP won the other crucial seat of Palghar in Maharashtra. One of the most crucial among the seats is
western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana where the opposition parties put up a show of unity to take on the BJP in the run up to the general elections next year. Re-polling was held yesterday in 73 polling booths in Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections. The assembly seats where the by-elections were held on Monday are Noorpur (Uttar Pradesh), Jokihat (Bihar), Tharali (Uttarakhand), Gomia and Silli (Jharkhand), Maheshtala (West Bengal), Ampati (Meghalaya), Palus Kadegaon (Maharashtra), Shahkot (Punjab) and Chengannur (Kerala).
Here are the highlights updates on by-election results 2018:
May 31, 2018 19:44 (IST)
Reacting to the bypoll results, Congress said that it is a "reaffirmation of people's faith in the party's inclusive and progressive ideology vs the BJP and its divisive politics."
May 31, 2018 19:38 (IST)
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today people are "disenchanted" with the BJP and the federal front formula she proposed was a success in the bypolls in 11 states. Ms Banerjee said the result of the bypoll in four Lok Sabha and 10 assembly seats across 11 states have shown that the opposition parties have won wherever they were strong.
May 31, 2018 19:30 (IST)
We are not against BJP-Shiv Sena alliance and neither do we believe that our alliance will break but effort has to be from both ways. We are ready for talks with Shiv Sena: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Uddhav Thackeray's remarks against BJP.
May 31, 2018 17:58 (IST)
BJP's Sambit Patra on by-poll results: "We won 325 seats in UP and formed a government. How did we lose bypolls and win later? Because bypoll is fought over local issues. Congress has been designated as a peripheral player, it is clapping on performance of other regional parties. Congress needs greater introspection."
May 31, 2018 17:57 (IST)
BJP's Sambit Patra on by-poll results: "We won 325 seats in UP and formed a government. How did we lose bypolls and win later? Because bypoll is fought over local issues. Congress has been designated as a peripheral player, it is clapping on performance of other regional parties. Congress needs greater introspection."
May 31, 2018 17:45 (IST)
Shiv Sena's demand to not announce Palghar by-poll result has been rejected by Election Commission. The winning certificate has been given to the BJP candidate, Rajendra Gavit by Palghar collector.
May 31, 2018 17:30 (IST)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reacts to bypoll results. She says this is a lesson for all regional parties. "In politics, you can't use muscle power for everything."
May 31, 2018 17:23 (IST)
Yogi Adityanath is losing in his own state and he is coming to campaign in Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray
May 31, 2018 17:20 (IST)
Uddhav Thackeray takes on Election Commission: "Seeing the corruption in Election Commission, I would suggest that even election commissioners should not be appointed, but elected."
May 31, 2018 17:03 (IST)
BJP's Rajendra Gavit wins Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll, defeating Shiv Sena's Shrinivas Wanaga by 29,574 votes.
May 31, 2018 16:24 (IST)
"They used all their money & all their power, but could not get a victory," says RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav on bypoll results. The RJD today wrested Jokihat in Bihar from Nitish Kumar's party, scoring another point in his prestige battle with the Chief Minister who dumped his party last year. Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) lost by over 40,000 votes to the RJD.