The Assembly bypolls result from across India are on the expected lines. There are no big surprises from the states except Uttar Pradesh, which will elect a new Assembly in 2017.
The ruling Samajwadi Party has lost both Muzaffarnagar and Deoband Assembly seats. The BJP won Muzaffarnagar and the Congress wrested Deoband. The losses are certainly not a good news for the SP, whose decline has already begun across the state. The party managed to win in only Bikapur.
In Congress-ruled Karnataka, the ruling party won Bidar seat and the main opposition BJP won Hebbala and Devadurga seats. The defeat of the Congress in Hebbala in Bengaluru city has come as a shock to the party.
Former Union minister CK Jaffer Sharief’s grandson CK Rehman Sharief lost the prestigious seat by a big margin. The local BJP MP and Union Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda emerged victorious by ensuring the win of his candidate Narayanaswamy, who is an outsider to Bengaluru.
In Devadurga, former BJP minister Shivanagouda Naik won and the Congress’ Raheem Khan won from Bidar. Before the by-polls the Congress held one seat and the BJP held two seats. Since Hebbala candidate was not from Siddaramaiah camp, the chief minister can now blame Jaffer Sharief for the loss.
In Maharashtra’s Palghar (ST) Assembly seat the Shiv Sena candidate Amit Ghoda won by defeating the Congress candidate Rajendra Gavit by around 19,000 votes. The seat had been won by the Shiv Sena is the last Assembly elections too. The by-poll was necessitated following the death of sitting Shiv Sena MLA Krishna Arjun Ghoda.
In Bihar’s Harlakhi Assembly seat the RLSP (NDA) candidate Sudhanshu Shekhar has won. In Maihar Assembly seat of Madhya Pradesh, ruling BJP's Narayan Tripathi emerged victorious by defeating the Congress candidate Manish Patel.
In another poll bound state of Punjab, Ruling SAD's Ravinder Singh Brahmpura has won Khadoor Sahib assembly seat by a margin of 65,664 votes. He has defeated his nearest rival Independent candidate Bhupinder Singh by a margin of 65,664 votes. The main opposition Congress had boycotted the bypoll.
In Tripura, the CPIM continues to hold sway. The party won the Amarpur seat in Tripura easily. The big victory march of the ruling TRS has continued in Telangana with its candidate Bhupal Reddy winning Narayankhed Assembly seat by-poll in Medak district. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhara Rao once again proved that he has no real opposition in the new state. Last week, the TRS swept the Hyderabad City Corporation elections by decimating the TDP, Congress and BJP.
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