INDIA bloc 10, BJP 2: Assembly bypolls across seven states perk up Oppn camp further

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New Delhi: Results of thirteen assembly bypolls across seven states Saturday brought cheer to the Opposition camp, with INDIA bloc bagging 10 seats, including two each by the Congress in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh where the party was routed in the Lok Sabha polls, while the BJP registered wins in only two seats, having contested as many as 11...

In West Bengal, the BJP suffered yet another jolt, as the party lost all four seats where voting was held on 10 July, including three it had won in the 2021 assembly polls, to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC)...

A win in Madhya Pradeshs Amarwara, which comes under the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency dominated by Congresss Kamal Nath for decades until his son Nakul Nath lost to the BJP in this general election, came as the only salve for the BJP in an otherwise disappointing day for the party...

In Uttarakhands Badrinath seat, BJP fielded Rajendra Singh Bhandari, who won as a Congress candidate in the 2022 assembly elections and joined the BJP during the Lok Sabha polls..

For Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, the Congresss performance in the bypolls, particularly the victory of wife Kamlesh Thakur from the Dehra assembly seat that the party never won in the past, will come as a boost, after the drubbing in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha polls earlier this year...

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