The Samajwadi Party bagged seven of the 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, raising its seat tally in the Assembly to 194. The ruling party retained Milkipur, Ahirori, Mariahu and wrested Mujehna from the BJP, Siddhaur and Saidpur from the BSP and Ghaziabad from the Congress. It, however, lost Allahabad-West to the BSP, which also wrested Iglas from the Congress. The BJP managed to retain Atrauli, which was represented by former chief minister Kalyan Singh before he vacated it in May this year.BJP loses Balaghat, wins NohtaBhopal: In a setback to the ruling BJP in MP, ahead of the local bodies’ polls, its candidate was defeated by the Congress rival in Naxalite-infested Balaghat Assembly constituency. Congress’ Ashok Singh Saraswar defeated BJP’s Kailash Agarwal by 5,273 votes in Balaghat. The party, however, retained Nohta with Dasrath Singh Lodhi defeating former state minister Ratnesh Solomon (Congress) by 3,945 votes. Cong wins four out of five N-E seatsGuwahati: The Congress won four out of five Assembly seats in the North-East. The party retained two seats in Nagaland and one each in Manipur and Assam. It lost one in Nagaland.Congress retained Aonglenden and Tehok and lost Tenning to the Nagaland People’s Front, a partner of the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland.In Assam, Jibantara Ghatowar of Congress wrested Maran Assembly seat from AGP by defeating Parag Jyoti Barua. S. Budhichandra Singh of the ruling Congress was elected from Manipur’s Konthoujam. Cong wrests Bidar LS seat from BJPBIDAR: Congress’ Narasingrao Suryawanshi wrested Bidar reserved LS seat from the BJP and pushed its own coalition partner JD(S) to the third place. The JD(S) had spurned the offer to field a joint candidate. BJP’s Ramachandra Veerappa, whose death prompted the bypoll, had won all elections from Bidar since 1991. UKD wins Dwarahat DEHRA DUN: Pushpesh Tripathi of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal won the Dwarahat Assembly seat by defeating the ruling Congress candidate by over 5,000 votes. The constituency had been represented by his father, the late Vipin Tripathi, who died last month.
