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Congress draws a blank with a huge setback in Haryana's 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 field candidates. The second-highest number of votes (14.79 per cent) went to the None Of The Above (...

Other headlines: Centre lifted some air pollution curbs in Delhi-NCR, and BJP promised to implement Uniform Civil Code in Himachal if voted back to power.

The BJP said the result of the November 3 by-election was a stamp of approval by people on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies as it retained Gola Gokarannath in Uttar Pradesh, Dhamnagar in Odisha and Gopalganj in Bihar where it had fielded the kin of its party MLAs whose death necessitated the polls.

As voting is underway for assembly by-elections in seven vacant seats across six states, Telangana's Munugodu constituency remains the top focus point after a continuous war of words was witnessed in the run-up to the election.