INDIA alliance, which gave a tough fight to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, has come out on top in the by-elections to 13 Assembly seats across seven states. The INDIA bloc has won four seats and is ahead on six other seats.
The Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), AAP and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) are the INDIA bloc parties that fielded candidates in the bypolls held on Wednesday in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh,Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu.
In Punjab, AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat won the Jalandhar West seat by over 23,000 votes. In West Bengal, Trinamool Congress candidates have taken the lead in four seats, with BJP trailing behind in each constituency.
Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur,who made her electoral debut, won the Dehra elections.. In the state,the Congress has been leading in Nalagarh too, while BJP’s Ashish Sharma is ahead in Hamirpur.
