Bihar By-poll Results

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

Trinamool Congress has won big in Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge assembly seats, the most keenly watched among the five by-polls for which votes were counted today. Lalu Yadav's party has won in Bihar and Congress in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav today claimed that his party's victory in by-polls to two assembly segments in Bihar would lead to a political upheaval in the state where the NDA is running a government with a slender majority.

The Bihar election and by-poll results show that the Congress has no organisational presence on the ground or has weakened considerably, senior leader P Chidambaram has said, delivering another shot of home-truths in the middle of turmoil over Kapil Sibal's open criticism.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Nitish Kumar deployed half his cabinet and all his political aides in this one assembly seat in east Bihar that votes next week. He figures the outcome in Jokihat will be seen as an indicator of his popularity, and his political capital, which rival Tejashwi Yadav insists, has depleted ever since Mr Kumar swapped his alliance partners after dumping...

Counting for the Lok Sabha seat in Bihar's Araria and two assembly seats - Bhabua and Jahanabad began at 8 am. After over 10 rounds of counting in the three constituencies, trends show BJP holds Bhabua. RJD leads in both Araria and Jehanabad.

The Araria by-poll is the first electoral test for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after he walked out of the Grand Alliance last year and teamed up with the BJP.

By-elections for one parliament and two assembly seats in Bihar are being pegged as a Chief Minister Nitish Kumar vs RJD's Tejasvi Yadav contest, the first big political battle since Mr Kumar dissolved his "grand alliance" and partnered with the BJP last year.

Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav underwent several tests at the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, on a day when results of the by-polls for ten assembly seats were declared in his home state of Bihar.

Analysis of by-election results by Siddharth Varadarajan.

By mid-day today, Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar will know whether their mega alliance works. Results will be in for by-elections to 18 assembly seats, 10 of them in Bihar.

Counting took place for by-elections to 18 assembly seats in four states - Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. This is being considered as the first major test of strength for the BJP since the Lok Sabha polls.

The stage is all set for the results of the assembly by-election on 10 seats on Monday, touted by political pundits as a 'semi-final' before the full-fledged assembly elections scheduled next year.

It's a battle of prestige for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the results of a by-poll to the Maharajganj Lok Sabha seat will be declared today. The primary contest is between strongman Prabhunath Singh of Lalu Prasa'd Rashtriya Janata Dal and state education minister P K Shahi of the Janata Dal (United).

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

Trinamool Congress has won big in Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge assembly seats, the most keenly watched among the five by-polls for which votes were counted today. Lalu Yadav's party has won in Bihar and Congress in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav today claimed that his party's victory in by-polls to two assembly segments in Bihar would lead to a political upheaval in the state where the NDA is running a government with a slender majority.

The Bihar election and by-poll results show that the Congress has no organisational presence on the ground or has weakened considerably, senior leader P Chidambaram has said, delivering another shot of home-truths in the middle of turmoil over Kapil Sibal's open criticism.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Nitish Kumar deployed half his cabinet and all his political aides in this one assembly seat in east Bihar that votes next week. He figures the outcome in Jokihat will be seen as an indicator of his popularity, and his political capital, which rival Tejashwi Yadav insists, has depleted ever since Mr Kumar swapped his alliance partners after dumping...

Counting for the Lok Sabha seat in Bihar's Araria and two assembly seats - Bhabua and Jahanabad began at 8 am. After over 10 rounds of counting in the three constituencies, trends show BJP holds Bhabua. RJD leads in both Araria and Jehanabad.

The Araria by-poll is the first electoral test for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after he walked out of the Grand Alliance last year and teamed up with the BJP.

By-elections for one parliament and two assembly seats in Bihar are being pegged as a Chief Minister Nitish Kumar vs RJD's Tejasvi Yadav contest, the first big political battle since Mr Kumar dissolved his "grand alliance" and partnered with the BJP last year.

Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav underwent several tests at the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, on a day when results of the by-polls for ten assembly seats were declared in his home state of Bihar.

Analysis of by-election results by Siddharth Varadarajan.

By mid-day today, Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar will know whether their mega alliance works. Results will be in for by-elections to 18 assembly seats, 10 of them in Bihar.

Counting took place for by-elections to 18 assembly seats in four states - Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. This is being considered as the first major test of strength for the BJP since the Lok Sabha polls.

The stage is all set for the results of the assembly by-election on 10 seats on Monday, touted by political pundits as a 'semi-final' before the full-fledged assembly elections scheduled next year.

It's a battle of prestige for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the results of a by-poll to the Maharajganj Lok Sabha seat will be declared today. The primary contest is between strongman Prabhunath Singh of Lalu Prasa'd Rashtriya Janata Dal and state education minister P K Shahi of the Janata Dal (United).