New Delhi, 26 June
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday won five out of 10 seats as the result of bypolls held on June 23 to three parliamentary and seven assembly constituencies in UP, Punjab, Delhi, Jharkhand, Tripura and Andhra Pradesh.
Consolidating its gains in Uttar Pradesh, where it had won a historic victory in the recently-held state elections, the BJP saw the Samajwadi Party’s Lok Sabha bastions of Azamgarh and Rampur vacated by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and party stalwart Azam Khan. Gave.
In Rampur, where the bypoll was necessitated after Azam Khan won the recent assembly elections, BJP’s Ghanshyam Lodhi defeated SP’s Asim Raja by a huge margin of 42,192. 51.96 percent of the total votes polled. BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua, the famous face of Bhojpuri films, defeated Akhilesh’s cousin Dharmendra Yadav by a margin of 8,679 votes from Azamgarh. BSP candidate Guddu Jamali, who secured 29.27% of the votes in Azamgarh, played a bad role for the SP, which won Rampur and Azamgarh in alliance with the BSP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
In Punjab, SAD(A) candidate Simranjit Singh Mann won the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat. BJP today won three of the four assembly seats in Tripura, including Town Bardowali, which was won by CM Manik Saha. Meanwhile, the Congress won two assembly seats. It won the key seat of Agartala in Tripura, marking the party’s return to the 60-member state assembly. And, it took to Mandar in Jharkhand, where ruling JMM-backed Congress candidate Shilpi Tirkey defeated her nearest BJP rival, despite the BJP fielding veteran tribal leader and former Jharkhand governor Draupadi Murmu as its presidential candidate. Nominated.
Shilpi Tirkey’s father and sitting MLA had to hold the Mandar by-election after he was convicted in a corruption case.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that the victory signaled “widespread acceptance and support for double engine governments at the Center and in UP”.
The TMC candidate finished fourth in all the four seats in Tripura and lost his deposit. AAP defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by 11,468 votes in Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar seat by Durgesh Pathak.