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INDIA bloc wins 10 out of 13 seats in bypolls
BJP gets 2
utsavi ‘s report The best news for the Congress came from Himachal Pradesh, where it won two constituencies — Dehra and Nalagarh — while only Hamirpur went to the BJP. With this, the Congress has returned to its original strength of 40 MLAs in the State.The bypoll in Himachal Pradesh had been necessitated after three Independents withdrew support to the Congress and joined the BJP. The position of Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu was further strengthened with his wife Kamlesh Thakur winning from Dehra.
There was also good news for the Congress in Uttarakhand, with the party retaining the Badrinath seat. The sitting MLA from the seat Rajendra Singh Bhandari, who had defected to the ruling BJP, was defeated by the Congress’ Lakhapat Singh Butola. Trying to project a larger political message in the Badrinath victory, Congress MP Manickam Tagore posted on X, saying, “Hate defeated & love won in Ayodhya in Loksabha… Again Hate defeated & love won in Badrinath today.”
The party also wrested Uttarakhand’s Manglaur seat from the Bahujan Samaj Party; the bypoll was held after the death of sitting MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari.
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