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BJP has taken an early lead in four seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha and Bihar

Mokama assembly constituency in Bihar fell vacant following the disqualification of Neelam Devis husband and RJD MLA Anant Singh after his conviction in an Arms Act case.

Congress draws a blank with a huge setback in Haryanas Adampur

New Delhi/Mumbai/Patna, Nov. 6 (PTI): The BJP won in four out of seven assembly constituencies in six states, retaining the three seats it held, in the bye-election results declared on Sunday, while the TRS and RJD won one each after a stiff contest with the saffron party. Rutuja Latke, the candidate of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), won the bye-election to Andheri (East) in Mumbai, the seat earlier represented by her deceased husband, after major parties including the BJP did not f...

The by-polls were the first test of strength since the upheaval in August this year that brought the Mahagathbandhan to power and ousted the BJP.

Bihars former minister and BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain on Sunday claimed that the party will win 40 seats from the state in the next Lok Sabha polls.

The polling was held on November 3, and 52.3 per cent votes were cast.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, whose RJD on Sunday retained Mokama assembly seat but failed to wrest from the BJP Gopalganj constituency, losing it by a whisker, asserted that the outcome marked a success of their "experiment".

In democracy any party or individual has right to contest elections. However, how BJP is benefited in multi-cornered contest became evident once again when the by election result in Gopalganj was announced Sunday.

The bypoll results come as a boost for the BJP and K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS (now BRS) who plans to take his party to the national arena.