Bypoll Results: Congress Leads In Himachal, Trinamool Ahead In Bengal | Read

The counting is currently underway for bypolls to 13 Assembly seats across seven states. The electoral exercise was the first since the Lok Sabha polls, which saw the BJP-led NDA forming the government for a third straight term. In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is currently leading on all four seats. The electoral exercise in Himachal Pradesh will decide the fate of many veterans and some debutants, including Chief Minister and Congress leader Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur from the Dehra constituency, who is currently ahead of her BJP rival Hoshyar Singh. In Uttarakhand, the Manglaur constituency is witnessing a three-cornered fight in the bypoll, which was held after the death of BSP MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari in October last year. The BJP is currently trailing in Manglaur, a Muslim- and Dalit-dominated seat that has been held either by the Congress or the BSP so far. The ruling party is also trailing in Badrinath.