NEW DELHI: The Bjp on Tuesday he swept the by-elections of the assembly held last week winning and leading in 40 of 59 seats in 11 states, including Madhya Pradesh where he consolidated his government by obtaining 17 seats and was ready to add two more.
Overall, Congress, which had MLA seats in more than 40 seats, won 11 seats and led in one, while the BJD won two seats. One seat each was won by the Samajwadi Party, the JMM and the NDPP, and two by the independents, according to data from the Electoral Commission around midnight.
The BJP won 38 seats and led in two. India’s ruling party seized all eight congressional seats in Gujarat, four seats in Manipur, and also retained its six electoral districts in Uttar Pradesh that went to the polls in the first pan-Indian election exercise in the pandemic.
It won two seats in Karnataka and one in Telangana.
The BJP’s victory in the elections coincided with its impressive show at the Bihar Assembly elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the BJP’s victory in the parliamentary elections in MP, UP, Gujarat and Manipur and thanked voters.
He expressed his gratitude to the electorate at Dubbak headquarters in Telangana, where the TRS was defeated, calling it a “historic victory”.
Modi said the BJP victory in Karnataka’s Rajarajeshwarinagar and Sira is special and the results reaffirm people’s faith in the reform agenda of the central and state governments.
The head of the BJP, JP Nadda, and other party leaders also thanked the voters and party workers in these states.
Votes were counted for the by-elections in Madhya Pradesh (28 seats), UP (seven), Gujarat (eight) Manipur (five seats), Haryana (one), Chhattisgarh (one), Jharkhand (two), Karnataka (two), Nagaland (two), Odisha (two) and Telangana (one).
If the by-elections were a big victory for the BJP, it seemed regrettable for Congress, particularly in Madhya Pradesh, where it previously held MLA sessions in 27 out of 28 seats. The party won eight seats and led one seat in the state.
However, he had some scattered victories, including in BJP-ruled Haryana, where he retained his seat in Baroda with his candidate Indu Raj Narwal defeating BJP nominee and Olympic wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt. They won one seat each in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
JD (U) led the by-elections of Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha in Bihar.
MADHYA PRADESH
The BJP government, which needed eight MLAs for a simple majority, won 17 seats and led two of the 28 Assembly seats in MP where by-elections were held.
An animated chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, said the result proves voters supported the decision made by the MLA in Congress to overturn the previous dispensation of Kamal Nath.
The BJP came to power in March after the collapse of the congressional-led government following a revolt by a section of the MLA in Congress led by Jyotiraditya Scindia. Congress secured victory in one seat and led in eight electoral districts.
In the 230-member chamber, the BJP’s tally has risen to 124 with the victory, providing stability to the government.
Driven by the “progressive agenda” of the prime minister’s government Shivraj Chouhan And the hard work of its workers, the BJP has become the “incomparable choice” of the people of Madhya Pradesh, Prime Minister Modi said, adding that the people’s affection for the party is “invaluable.”
Congress President Kamal Nath accepted defeat and said the party made efforts to reach out to the people.
“We accepted the mandate. We did everything possible to reach the voters. I also thank all the voters who participated in the by-elections,” Nath said in a tweet.
Despite the BJP’s gains, the Minister of State, Imarti Devi, lost the indirect elections of the Dabra assembly seat.
Imarti Devi was among the members of the Congress of Deputies who had left the Congress.
The mockery of Kamal Nath’s “article” during the campaign had sparked controversy.
GUJARAT
The ruling BJP won all eight assembly seats in Gujarat where the by-elections were held on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the opposition Congress that had pocketed these constituencies in 2017.
Prime Minister Modi said that the bond between the people of Gujarat and the BJP is unbreakable and this affection is seen again in the victory of the elections.
The BJP’s count in the 182-member Assembly has now reached 111.
Eight MLAs from Congress had resigned before the Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, and five of them, who were given tickets by the BJP, won on Tuesday.
They are Pradhyumansinh Jadeja (who won from Abdasa’s seat), Brjesh Merja (Morbi), Akshay Patel (Karjan), Jitu Chaudhari (Kaprada) and JV Kakadiya (Dhari).
At the Limbdi headquarters in the Surendranagar district, former BJP Minister Kiritsinh Rana, who lost in 2017, defeated Chetan Khachar from Congress.
In the Dangs seat reserved for the scheduled tribe, BJP candidate Vijay Patel was declared the winner by the EC.
The Dalit leader of the BJP and former minister Atmaram Parmar, who had lost in the last elections, defeated Mohan Solanki from Congress at the Gadhada (SC) headquarters in the Botad district.
When party workers stormed the celebrations and set off firecrackers at its headquarters in Gandhinagar, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani told reporters that his party’s performance was “a breakthrough” for the upcoming local body elections and elections. 2022 assembly elections.
UTTAR PRADESH
The BJP, which already has a comfortable majority in the UP Assembly, retained six seats and the SP held onto its Malhani constituency in the by-elections for seven assembly seats, the 6: 1 result indicates that the ruling party it continued its control over the state population.
BJP candidate Sangeeta Chauhan won in Naugawan Sadat, Usha Sirohi in Bulandshahr, Prem Pal Dhangar in Tundla, Shrikant Katiyar in Bangarmau, Satya Prakash Mani Tripathi in Deoria and Upendra Nath Paswan in Ghatampur, according to the Electoral Commission.
Lucky Yadav of the Samajwadi party won Malhani, the seat that was represented by his father Parasnath Yadav, whose death required a by-election. He defeated independent candidate Dhananjay Singh by 4,632 votes.
A tough seesaw battle was fought over the seat of Naugawan Sadat previously held by Chetan Chauhan, the former cricketer who was minister in Yogi AdityanathGovernment of the BJP.
MANIPUR
According to the Electoral Commission, the BJP had won four seats and one was held by an Independent. The by-elections were necessary as the MLA in Congress left the party to join the BJP.
In the Singhat assembly constituency, the BJP candidate, Ginsuanhau, was elected unopposed in October this year.
KARNATAKA
The ruling BJP won the two seats for which by-elections were held, removing Sira from JD (S) and Rajarajeshwari Nagar from Congress. He created history by recording his first victory in Sira’s assembly segment, winning Dr. CM Rajesh Gowda with a margin of more than 12,000 votes.
In RR Nagar, N Munirathana emerged the winner with a margin of more than 58,000 votes against his closest rival in Congress, Kusuma.
JHARKHAND
Jharkhand’s ruling coalition, led by JMM, retained the Dumka and Bermo assembly seats, albeit with narrow margins from the 2019 state elections.
JMM candidate Basant Soren, who is Prime Minister Hemant Soren’s younger brother, defeated his closest BJP rival, Lois Marandi, a former minister, by 6,842 votes, in Dumka’s seat.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s margin of victory was cut by almost half compared to what it was in last year’s assembly elections.
In the Bermo constituency, Kumar Jayamangal aka Anup Singh from Congress defeated Yogeshwar Mahto “Batul”, his closest BJP rival, by a margin of 14,225 votes.
ODISHA
State ruler Biju Janata Dal won both the Balasore, which was in the hands of the BJP, and the Tirtol seats for which by-elections were held.
HARYANA
In a major victory for Congress, their candidate Indu Raj Narwal defeated the BJP candidate, Olympic wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, at the BJP-ruled Baroda assembly headquarters in Haryana.
Congress retained the seat with Narwal winning by more than 10,000 votes, officials said.
“Indu Raj Narwal’s victory is a victory for farmers and workers. I assure the residents of Baroda that Congress will live up to their expectations, ”Congress Leader Kumari Selja tweeted.
CHHATTISGARH
The ruling Congress won the Marwahi Assembly by vote, necessitated by the death of the founder of Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J), Ajit Jogi.
The candidate for Congress, Dr. KK Dhruw, won by 38,197 votes.
TELANGANA
The BJP seized the constituency of the Dubbak Assembly from the ruling TRS in Telangana.
BJP candidate M Raghunandan Rao defeated his closest rival Solipeta Sujatha of the TRS ruler by 1,079 votes.
Sujata was the wife of TRS MLA Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy, whose death in August this year prompted the elections.
NAGALAND
The National Democratic Progressive Party took the southern seat of Angami-I in Kohima, while an independent candidate won in the Pungro-Kiphire segment of the assembly in the Kiphire district.
Votes for the November 3-7 by-elections were counted alongside the ballots for Bihar’s polls and progressed in accordance with Electoral Commission guidelines restricting the number of people in counting rooms, officials said.
Extensive measures were taken to ensure social distancing.
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