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Congress’s DK Shivakumar commented on the blow to Chief Minister Bommai in his home constituency of Hanagal, saying that the people of Karnataka are “looking for a change”.
The TMC on Tuesday won the Dinhata assembly seat, which was won by its Minister of State for Home Nishith Parmanik by a record margin of 1,64,089 votes in the assembly bypolls held last Saturday. The ruling party also retained Kharda assembly constituency by winning the seat by an impressive margin of 93,832 votes. In Cooch Behar’s Dinhata assembly seat, TMC’s Udayan Guha got 1,14,086 votes, while nearest rival BJP’s Palash Rana got only 20,254 votes.
The bypoll to the Dinhata assembly constituency was necessitated after Union Minister Nisith Pramanik, who won the seat by a margin of just 57 votes, to retain his Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat. In Kharda Assembly Constituency, State Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay defeated his nearest rival Joy Saha of BJP by a margin of 93,832 votes. Chattopadhyay got 1,14,086 votes, while Saha got 20,254 votes. After the death of the sitting TMC MLA, a by-election had to be held in this assembly constituency.
The elections were held on October 30 and saw some high-stakes battles between the Congress and the BJP. In the assembly by-elections, five seats were held in Assam, four in West Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat each in Andhra Pradesh. , Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana. Of the 29 assembly seats, the BJP had earlier won about half a dozen seats, the Congress nine, while the rest were held by regional parties.
The seats where Lok Sabha bypolls were held include Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. Sitting members were killed in all three Lok Sabha constituencies.
The Mandi seat fell vacant after the death of Ramswaroop Sharma (BJP) in March. The by-election to Khandwa parliamentary constituency was necessitated after the death of BJP member Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan, while in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, it was due to the demise of Independent Lok Sabha member Mohan Delkar. In Mandi, Pratibha Singh is pitted against BJP’s Khushal Singh Thakur, a Kargil war hero.
In Meghalaya, former national footballer Eugeneson Lyngdoh is contesting from Mawphlang on a United Democratic Party (UDP) ticket. He is up against former Congress MLA Kennedy C Khairim and Lampharang Blah, a sitting member of the District Council (MDC) from the NPP. In Haryana, a by-election was held for the Ellenabad assembly constituency after Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Chautala resigned as MLA in protest against the Centre’s new agricultural laws.
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