Himachal Pradesh: Kamlesh Thakur wins Dehra assembly bypoll
INDIA bloc candidate and wife of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Kamlesh Thakur, won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh today, while the alliance’s AAP won the Jalandhar West seat and the Trinamool Congress won Raiganj in West Bengal.
Kamlesh Thakur, the Himachal Pradesh Congress leader, defeated her nearest challenger, BJP nominee Hoshyar Singh, by more than 9,000 votes in Dehra. Her party colleague is also leading in Nalagarh, while the BJP leads in Hamirpur.
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Aam Aadmi Party’s Mohinder Bhagat wins Jalandhar West
The AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat won the byelection in Punjab’s Jalandhar West assembly segment by more than 30,000 votes.
Other important constituencies
In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress won the Raiganj bypoll and is now leading in the remaining three seats.
In Uttarakhand, the Manglaur constituency is experiencing a three-cornered contest in the byelection, which was held following the death of BSP MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari in October last year. The BJP is currently lagging in Manglaur, a Muslim and Dalit-dominated constituency previously held by either the Congress or the BSP. The ruling party is also behind in Badrinath.
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A bypoll was required in Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi assembly constituency since DMK legislator N Pughazhendhi passed away on April 6. It’s a triangular race, with Anniyur Siva (also known as Sivashanmugam A) of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leading Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) candidate C Anbumani and K Abinaya of Naam Tamilar Katchi.
These byelections were the first since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, when the BJP won 240 seats, 32 shy of a majority. The NDA, on the other hand, crossed the halfway point of 272 seats, for a total of 293 seats. The Congress-led INDIA group won 232 seats.
