Tight security mulled in polling stations. (Express Photo)
The seat in Dumri was vacated after the death of Jagarnath Mahto, who had been the Dumri MLA since 2005 when Jharkhand’s first Assembly poll as a separate state was held. Mahto, a member of the Chief Minister Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, had won the seat in the 2019 Assembly polls. The JMM, now an INDIA bloc member, is fielding Mahto’s wife Bebi Devi this time. The NDA has campaigned heavily in this seat, with visits from Union ministers Arjun Munda and Annapurna Devi, and former Chief Ministers Babulal Marandi and Raghubar Das, in an attempt to wrest the constituency from the JMM. Results in this bypoll won’t immediately impact the Assembly composition, with the JMM-led ruling coalition holding 49 of the 80 total seats
In Kerala's Puthuppally, the bye-election was called after the death of the Congress’s Oommen Chandy, a two-time Chief Minister and the Puthuppally MLA since 1970. A Congress bastion, the only time it had a non-Congress MLA was in 1967 when the CPI(M) won the seat. In the 2021 Assembly polls, Chandy had won the seat for the 12th consecutive time, defeating the CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas in a close contest, by just over 9,000 votes. The Congress, which leads the Opposition United Democratic Front in the Kerala government, named Chandy’s son, 37-year-old Youth Congress leader Chandy Oommen as its candidate. The CPI(M), which leads the Left Democratic Front government in the state, fielded Thomas again, in the hopes that he can further cut into the Congress’s vote share.
Just months after the Assembly elections in Tripura, two seats--Dhanpur and Boxanagar-- saw bypolls in the state – one necessitated by the death of an MLA and the other by a resignation. Both seats featured a straight contest between the CPI(M) and BJP while the Congress backed the CPI(M).
In Uttarakhand, a year after the Assembly polls, the Bageshwar seat witnessed a bypoll following the death of sitting BJP MLA Chandan Ram Dass. Dass, a four-time MLA and minister with the portfolios of Social Welfare, Minority Welfare, Road Transport, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, had won in the 2022 polls for a fourth consecutive time after defeating the Congress’s Ranjeet Das by more than 12,000 votes.
In UP's Ghosi, the bypoll was called after serial party-hopper Dara Singh Chauhan resigned as the Samajwadi Party’s Ghosi MLA to rejoin the BJP earlier this year. In the 2022 Assembly polls, Chauhan won the Ghosi seat as an SP candidate, defeating the BJP’s Vijay Kumar Rajbhar by more than 22,000 votes. This time, the BJP fielded Dass’s wife Parwati in a direct contest against the Congress’s Basant Kumar. In a test of Opposition unity, the Samajwadi Party (SP), despite being a Congress ally in the INDIA bloc, fielded a candidate, Bhagawati Prasad. The Congress has opted not to field a candidate and is backing its INDIA partner, even though the SP refused to withdraw its candidate in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar by-poll
In 2021, the BJP made its first significant foray into the West Bengal Assembly, winning 77 seats compared with just 3 in the previous election. In Dhupguri, the BJP’s Bishnu Pada Ray defeated the Trinamool Congress’s Mitali Roy by a narrow 4,300-vote margin. The constituency saw a bypoll after Ray’s death in July. The BJP fielded Tapasi Roy, the widow of CRPF jawan Jagannath Roy who was killed in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 2021. Both the Trinamool and CPI(M) fielded new candidates for the bypoll. With the Congress backing the CPI(M) against the TMC, the bypoll saw a contest between INDIA bloc members.
Mahila Congress workers celebrate the victory of party candidate Chandy Oommen in the Puthuppally by-election, in Thiruvananthapuram, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. (PTI Photo)
IN A BIG boost for the INDIA alliance, the Samajwadi Party defeated the BJP in the Ghosi bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, and with a big margin of 42,759 votes. It was the first election in UP since the formation of the Opposition alliance, and apart from SP ally RLD, the Congress too had extended support to the SP candidate as part of the INDIA understanding.
The SP saw a massive jump in its vote share from the 2022 Assembly polls in the seat, with party president Akhilesh Yadav hailing the result as “the beginning of INDIA’s win”. The RLD and Congress too welcomed the result.
Making the victory doubly sweet for the SP was the fact that its candidate Sudhakar Singh was up against Dara Singh Chauhan, who had left the SP for the BJP after winning last year on the SP ticket.
Chauhan was seen as heading for greener pastures when he resigned as SP MLA to join the BJP. There was talk of the influential OBC leader of eastern UP being accommodated as a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government if he won. The defeat leaves him nowhere. Read More
For the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala, the Congress's win in the Puthuppally Assembly bypoll is a major setback. The party, which leads the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in the state, will find it difficult to seek solace in the refrain that the Congress has merely retained a seat that has been its pocket borough since 1970, riding on a sympathy wave after the death of party veteran Oommen Chandy.
Soon after the by-election schedule had been declared, CPI(M) state secretary and party Politburo member M V Govindan had stated that the Puthuppally contest would be a referendum on the party's regime, led by Pinarayi Vijayan. What has shocked the CPI(M) is the massive margin by which former CM Oommen Chandy's son Chandy Oommen defeated its candidate Jaick C Thomas, who had been handpicked from Chandy’s turf and had contested against Chandy Sr twice in the past.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan himself led the LDF campaign, turning up at the constituency thrice and attending conventions in all eight village panchayats. That apart, many of his Cabinet colleagues and senior CPI(M) leaders were involved in micro-level campaigning at Puthuppally. Read More
The result of the Puthuppally Assembly bypoll is a severe jolt for the Kerala BJP. Its candidate and Kottayam district secretary G Lijin Lal managed to get only 5.02% of the polled votes, against the 61.38% vote share of the winner, the Congress's Chandy Oommen, and 32.49% votes bagged by the CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas.
In the party's worst showing in the constituency since 2011, Lal got only 6,558 votes, against 11,694 in 2021.
Given that the bypoll was held soon after several Opposition parties had cobbled together the INDIA coalition at the national level, the BJP's main campaign issue was the dichotomy of a direct fight between the CPI(M) and Congress in Kerala, while the parties maintained bonhomie outside the state.
Hoping to improve its show at Puthuppally, the BJP had held outreach programmes aimed at the influential Christian community in the constituency. However, the violence in Manipur — which was perceived as Christian Kuki-Zomis suffering at the hands of the majority Hindu Meiteis — is believed to have dampened the party's efforts at attracting Christian voters at Puthuppally. Read More
IN A BIG boost for the ruling BJP in Tripura, the party won bypolls to both the Assembly seats for which results were declared Friday. One of the constituencies was a sitting seat of the CPI(M), which was backed by ally Congress in the bypoll.
The victories come six months after the BJP returned to power for the second time in the state, but with a wafer-thin majority. With the two wins, the BJP’s tally goes up to 33 seats in the 60-member Assembly.
The Dhanpur bypoll had been necessitated due to the resignation of the BJP’s Pratima Bhoumik from the seat, after she chose to continue as an MP and Union Minister of State. The Boxanagar bypoll had to be held due to the death of its sitting MLA, the CPI(M)’s Samsul Haque. Read More
The ruling Trinamool Congress wrested the Dhupguri Assembly seat in Bengal from the BJP on Friday, after the result kept swinging between the two parties through counting.
The bypoll had been necessitated because of the death of the sitting BJP MLA. All major parties, including the CPI(M), fielded new faces in the seat, which had also seen a close contest in the 2021 Assembly elections.
By the end of counting Friday, the TMC’s Nirmal Chandra Roy was declared a winner over the BJP’s Tapasi Roy by over 4,000 votes. In 2021, the BJP’s Bishnupada Roy had won by almost the same number of votes. He died earlier this year. Read More
THE BJP retained the Bageshwar Assembly bypoll seat in Uttarakhand on Friday, with its candidate Parwati Dass winning by a narrow margin of 2,405 votes.
Dass is the wife of Chandan Ram Dass, whose death in April necessitated the bypoll. Dass had won Bageshwar for the fourth time in the 2022 Assembly elections by a huge margin.
He was a minister with portfolios of Social Welfare, Minority Welfare, Road Transport, and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises.
This time, in an attempt to gain sympathy votes, the BJP fielded Dass’s wife Parwati. After the Congress’s 2022 candidate Ranjit Das left to join the BJP just weeks before the election, the party opted to field former AAP candidate Kumar. Ranjit, however, was not named as the BJP candidate. Read More
The BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes, news agency PTI reported.
Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said. The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she declared.
Parwati Dass, who won the seat, is wife of the late Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year had necessitated the bypoll.
The Dumri bypoll in Jharkhand was headed for a close finish, with the INDIA candidate, the JMM’s Bebi Devi, leading by 1,561 votes after counting for 15 out of 24 rounds in the seat held by the JMM for a long time.
Bebi Devi was neck-and-neck with NDA ally All Jharkhand Students’ Union’s (AJSU) Yashoda Devi. Until the 14th round, Yashoda Devi had the lead. Bebi Devi’s husband and the sitting JMM MLA from the seat, Jagarnath Mahato, died earlier this year, necessitating the bypoll.
Mahato was also the Jharkhand Education Minister, and Bebi Devi is a minister in the JMM-led government in the state, with the Congress and RJD as allies. Read More
Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday surged ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in bypolls at West Bengal's Dhupguri assembly seat, according to officials.
Samajwadi Party (SP) is currently leading in Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi assembly constituency with about 66,707 votes, according to the ECI website.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trailing behind SP with 43,784 votes.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is currently leading with about 66,708 votes against rival AJSU Party in Jharkhand's Dumri assembly constituency, the data released by the ECI website stated, as of 2:30 pm.
The AJSU Party is trailing behind JMM with 62,665 votes.
IN A BIG boost for the ruling BJP in Tripura, the party won bypolls to both the Assembly seats for which results were declared Friday. One of the constituencies was a sitting seat of the CPI(M), which was backed by ally Congress in the bypoll.
The victories come six months after the BJP returned to power for the second time in the state, but with a wafer-thin majority. With the two wins, the BJP’s tally goes up to 33 seats in the 60-member Assembly.
The Dhanpur bypoll had been necessitated due to the resignation of the BJP’s Pratima Bhoumik from the seat, after she chose to continue as an MP and Union Minister of State. The Boxanagar bypoll had to be held due to the death of its sitting MLA, the CPI(M)’s Samsul Haque.
Read the Political Pulse here.
As of 1:30 pm, the Ajsu Party in Jharkhand's Dumri assembly constituency is leading with its candidate Yashoda Devi securing over 42,000 votes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the seat is traling behind AJSU Party with its candidate Bebi Devi securing aout 36,000 votes, according to the ECI website.
The 11th out of a total of 24 rounds of counting is underway for bypolls in Dumri assembly constituency.
In Kerala’s Puthuppally Assembly seat on Friday, a son took over the baton from his father who had kept it close to his heart for the last 53 years. The victory of Chandy Oommen, 37, the son of the late chief minister and Congress veteran Oommen Chandy in the bypoll is nothing short of spectacular.
In the bye-election held in the shadow of his father, who died in July this year, Chandy Jr has managed to surpass the biggest victory margin that Oommen Chandy had recorded in 2011 when he gained a lead of 33,255 votes. As per the latest figures, the younger Chandy’s margin is set to go beyond 40,000.
The latest scion to rise from the Congress in Kerala, Chandy Jr is the state general secretary of the Youth Congress and the chairman of its outreach cell.
Read the Political Pulse here.
In the Bageshwar Assembly bypoll, BJP candidate Parwati Dass has a lead of more than 2.200 votes over Congress candidate Basant Kumar.
As per the results till round 9 (out of 14 rounds) of counting, Dass secured 23,420 votes while Kumar managed to secure 21,159 votes. Kumar was leading in the first three rounds.
A year after the Assembly polls in Uttarakhand, the Bageshwar seat is holding a bypoll following the death of sitting BJP MLA Chandan Ram Dass. Read more here.
The Dhupguri bypoll in West Bengal, necessitated because of the death of the sitting BJP MLA, is turning out to be a neck-and-neck contest – quite like in the 2021 Assembly elections.
After four rounds of counting, the Trinamool Congress’s Nirmal Chandra Roy enjoyed a thin lead of 360 votes over the BJP’s Tapashi Roy.
In the initial rounds, the BJP held the lead, stretching up to more than a thousand votes at one time. Read the full story here.
The Congress party secured a massive victory in Kerala’s Puthuppally assembly constituency after the 13th round of counting of votes came to an end on Friday.
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning Tripura's Dhanpur and Boxanagar seats, the counting of votes for bypolls at Dumri in Jharkhand, Puthuppally in Kerala, Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, and Dhupguri in West Bengal continued on Friday.
Here are the parties leading in the remaining five assembly constituencies across five states, as of 11:45 am:
Puthuppally (Kerala): Congress
Ghosi (Uttar Pradesh): Samajwadi Party
Dumri (Jharkhand): AJSU Party
Bageshwar (Uttarakhand): Bharatiya Janata Party
Dhupguri (West Bengal): Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by-elections to the Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly constituencies in Tripura's Sepahijala district, the Election Commission of India declared on Friday.
BJP's Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat, which has around 66 per cent minority voters, by 30,237 votes. Hossain got 34,146 votes, while his nearest rival Mizan Hossain of the CPI(M) got 3,909 votes, according to PTI report.
Meanwhile, BJP candidate Bindu Debnath bagged the Dhanpur seat, which has a significant tribal population, by 18,871 votes. Debnath got 30,017 votes, and his nearest rival Kaushik Chanda of the CPI(M) got 11,146 votes, the report said.
The by-election to the Boxanagar constituency was necessitated by the death of CPI(M) MLA Samsul Haque. Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik's resignation as the MLA of Dhanpur necessitated the by-election in that seat.
Congress is poised for victory at the bye-election held at Puthuppally assembly segment in Kerala.
As counting of votes enters into the tenth round out of 13 rounds in total, Congress candidate Chandy Oommen gained a lead of around 37,000 votes over his rival CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas.
As counting of votes for the bypoll in West Bengal’s Dhupguri constituency began with the postal ballots, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was initially ahead but soon after the BJP took the lead.
The saffron party got 428 votes, the TMC 160 and the CPI(M) got 127 votes after all postal votes were counted.
The bypoll, held on Tuesday, was necessitated following the death of sitting BJP MLA Bishupada Ray earlier this year.
Celebrations in Kerala's Puthuppally began early Friday as Congress took an early lead in bypolls held on September 5 this year.
(Source: IE Malayalam)
The initial trends show Congress taking early lead in Kerala's Puthuppally and the BJP trailing in Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi. The counting of votes are underway for seven bye-elections across six states — Jharkhand, Kerala, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
Here are the parties leading in the seven assembly constituencies across six states, as of 10:30 am.
Puthuppally (Kerala): Congress
Ghosi (Uttar Pradesh): Samajwadi Party
Dhanpur (Tripura): Bharatiya Janata Party
Boxanagar (Tripura): Bharatiya Janata Party
Dumri (Jharkhand): AJSU Party
Bageshwar (Uttarakhand): Bharatiya Janata Party
Dhupguri (West Bengal): Counting in Progress
(Source: ECI website)
Early trends, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI), showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading in Tripura's Dhanpur assembly constituency while the Communist Party of India (Marxist) trailed Friday morning.
The Congress party gained a clear lead in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar assembly constituency, as per early trends, the website of the Election Commission of India (ECI) showed.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trailing behind in the constituency, according to the initial trends.
The votes are being counted at the Bageshwar Degree College in Uttarakhand where 14 tables have been set up and 130 polling personnel are on the job, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal told PTI.
Polling to the reserved seat in the Kumaon Division was held on September 5 when 55.44 per cent of the nearly 1.2 lakh voters exercised the franchise, according to the report. The seat had fallen vacant after the death of MLA and cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das in April this year.
Samajwadi Party's Sudhakar Singh was leading with 178 votes in Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi assembly constituency, as per initial trends.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Dara Singh Chauhan was trailing at second position, according to early trends.
As per the Election Commission of India (ECI) website, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading against CPI(M) after the first round of voting for bypolls in Tripura's Boxanagar assembly constituency came to an end on Friday.
The first round of counting of votes for bypolls in Kerala's Puthuppally ended with Congress' Chandy Oommen leading with 5,699 votes, out of the 9,187 total votes counted.
CPI(M) Jaick C Thomas received 2,883 votes as per initial trends, whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received 476 votes.
As counting of votes for bye-election at Puthuppally assembly constituency in Kerala progressed on Friday, early trends showed Congress candidate Chandy Oommen gaining a clear lead over his rival CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas.
Within an hour of counting, Chandy got a lead of over 4,700 votes in the first round of voting. He earned a clear lead when the absentee votes, senior citizens who opted to vote from home, were counted in the initial stage.
There will be 13 rounds of counting. In the first round, votes of Ayarkunnam panchayat, which is a stronghold of Congress, were counted. From a few booths at this panchayat, Chandy got more votes than his father late Oommen Chandy had gained in 2021. The by-poll was necessitated following the death of former chief minister and Congress veteran Oommen Chandy, who had uninterruptedly represented the constituency for 53 years from 1970.
In the voting held on September 5, as many as 1.28 lakh voters had exercised their votes. The polling percentage in the by-poll was 72.86 in the constituency, which has 1.76 lakh voters. There was a slight fall in the polling compared to the 2021 assembly elections when the constituency had a voter turnout of 74.84 per cent.
Counting of votes for bypolls in Jharkhand's Dumri assemebly constituency is underway amid tight security.
The seat in Dumri was vacated after the death of Jagarnath Mahto, who had been the Dumri MLA since 2005 when Jharkhand’s first Assembly poll as a separate state was held. Mahto, a member of the Chief Minister Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), had won the seat in the 2019 Assembly polls.
The JMM, now an INDIA bloc member, is fielding Mahto’s wife Bebi Devi this time. The NDA has campaigned heavily in this seat, with visits from Union ministers Arjun Munda and Annapurna Devi, and former Chief Ministers Babulal Marandi and Raghubar Das, in an attempt to wrest the constituency from the JMM.
Results in this bypoll won’t immediately impact the Assembly composition, with the JMM-led ruling coalition holding 49 of the 80 total seats.
As counting of votes for bye-election held at Puthuppally assembly constituency in Kerala progressed on Friday, Congress candidate Chandy Oommen gained an edge over his rival CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas, as per early trends.
As counting of votes for bypolls in Kerala's Puthuppally began at 8 am on Friday, here are some of the visuals from the counting station Baselios College in Kottayam.
The Election Commission has arranged 20 counting tables here. The constituency has 182 booths and there would be 13 rounds of counting. In the initial round, postal and service votes would be counted.
(Express Video)
The counting of votes for the bye-elections to the two assembly seats — Dhanpur and Boxanagar — in Tripura's Sepahijala district began at 8 am, news agency PTI reported. On September 5, an average voter turnout of 86.50 per cent was recorded in the two seats.
The counting is currently being held at the Sonamura Girls' School amid tight security.
However, alleging large-scale rigging during the polling and inaction by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the opposition CPI(M) is boycotting the counting of votes. The two seats are witnessing a one-on-one fight between the ruling BJP and the CPI(M) with the other two opposition parties, Tipra Motha and Congress, not fielding any candidates.
Sepahijala's District Magistrate Vishal Kumar told PTI that all steps have been taken to complete the counting smoothly and transparently. "Tight security arrangements have been made to ensure peace during the counting and after the counting," he told the news agency. (PTI)
The counting of votes for bypolls in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar, Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi assembly constituencies began at 8 am on Friday.
In Uttarakhand, the votes are being counted at the Bageshwar Degree College where 14 tables have been set up and 130 polling personnel are on the job, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal told PTI. Polling to the reserved seat in the Kumaon Division was held on September 5 when 55.44 per cent of the nearly 1.2 lakh voters exercised the franchise, according to the report. The seat had fallen vacant after the death of MLA and cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das in April this year.
Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, the counting of votes for the Ghosi assembly bypoll is being seen as the first major electoral clash between the NDA and opposition bloc INDIA. The counting exercise began 8 am today. According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the final voter turnout recorded in the September 5 assembly bypolls was 50.77 per cent. The bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of Dara Singh Chauhan, who had won the seat in the 2022 UP Assembly polls, from the Samajwadi Party in July. He returned to the BJP and was fielded by the party in the bypoll. (with inputs from PTI)
Counting of votes for the bye-election held at Puthuppally Assembly constituency in Kerala began on Friday 8 am.
The bypoll was necessitated following the death of former chief minister and Congress veteran Oommen Chandy, who had uninterruptedly represented the constituency for 53 years from 1970.
In the voting held on September 5, as many as 1.28 lakh voters had exercised their votes. The polling percentage in the by-poll was 72.86 in the constituency, which has 1.76 lakh voters. There was a slight fall in the polling compared to the 2021 assembly election when the constituency had a voter turnout of 74.84 per cent.
Counting would be held simultaneously at 20 tables at the counting station Baselios College in Kottayam. The Election Commission has arranged 20 counting tables. The constituency has 182 booths and there would be 13 rounds of counting. In the initial round, postal and service votes would be counted.
(Express Video)
Security has been heightened in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district as counting for votes for bypolls in Dhupguri in set to begin shortly.
Security was tightened in Tripura's Sipahijala district, ahead of the counting of votes for the bypolls in Dhanpur and Boxanagar seats, scheduled to be declared later in the day.
Just months after the Assembly elections in Tripura, two seats--Dhanpur and Boxanagar-- saw bypolls in the state – one necessitated by the death of an MLA and the other by a resignation. Both seats featured a straight contest between the CPI(M) and BJP while the Congress backed the CPI(M).
Security was heightened in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, ahead of the Ghosi bypoll results which is scheduled to be declared later today.
In UP's Ghosi, the bypoll was called after serial party-hopper Dara Singh Chauhan resigned as the Samajwadi Party’s Ghosi MLA to rejoin the BJP earlier this year.
In the 2022 Assembly polls, Chauhan won the Ghosi seat as an SP candidate, defeating the BJP’s Vijay Kumar Rajbhar by more than 22,000 votes. This time, the BJP fielded Dass’s wife Parwati in a direct contest against the Congress’s Basant Kumar.
In a test of Opposition unity, the Samajwadi Party (SP), despite being a Congress ally in the INDIA bloc, fielded a candidate, Bhagawati Prasad. The Congress has opted not to field a candidate and is backing its INDIA partner, even though the SP refused to withdraw its candidate in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar by-poll.
Counting of votes for seven bye-elections across six states — Jharkhand, Kerala, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal — is scheduled to begin at 8 am today.
Counting of votes for seven bye-elections across six states — Jharkhand, Kerala, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal — will take place on September 8, in what are being seen as the first electoral contest between the BJP-led NDA alliance and the Opposition bloc INDIA ahead of several Assembly polls in major states later this year.
The bypolls at Dumri in Jharkhand, Puthuppally in Kerala, Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura, Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, and Dhupguri in West Bengal were held on September 5.
Welcome to out live blog! Follow here for the latest updates from bypolls held across 7 seats on September 5!