Jul 13, 2024 04:05 PM IST AAP prospect Mohinder Bhagat won from Jalandhar West, while Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s partner Kamlesh Thakur won from the Dehra seat. In an increase for the Opposition, the INDIA bloc won a minimum of 7 seats and was leading in 3, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 2 seats as votes were counted for the bypolls in 13 assembly seats throughout 7 states on Saturday, July 13. Congress has actually won 2 assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh and lost Hamirpur to BJP in the bypolls. (HT PHOTO/ Hindustan Times)(Hindustan Times) Among the 13 assembly seats, the Congress, which won 99 seats in the just recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, was leading in 2 seats of Uttarakhand. The celebration won Dehra assembly seat in Himachal Pradesh, where it had actually fielded primary minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s other half Kamlesh Thakur. The INDIA bloc’s partner Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which fielded prospect Mohinder Bhagat from Punjab’s Jalandhar West, won the seat, beating his closest competitor and BJP candidate Sheetal Angural by a margin of more than 37,000 votes. Follow live updates of bypolls 2024 According to the Election Commission of India (ECI) information, the Trinamool Congress, led by primary minister Mamata Banerjee, has actually won 3 assembly seats consisting of Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakhisn. The celebration had actually taken the lead over its competitor in Maniktala assembly sector. The bypolls for these 4 assembly seats were hung on July 10. Otherside, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Anniyur Siva was leading in Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi assembly constituency. In Himachal Pradesh, Congress prospects– primary minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s better half Kamlesh Tahkur and Hardeep Singh Bawa– remain in the lead in Dehra and Nalagarh, while BJP’s Ashish Sharma is ahead in Hamirpur. Kamlesh Thakur won versus BJP’s Hoshiyar Singh in Dehra. In Rupauli seat of Bihar, independent prospect Shankar Singh was leading and his closest competitor for the seat was Janata Dal (United) prospect Kaladhar Mandal. Read: ‘He is ideal’: Amethi MP Kishori Lal Sharma on Rahul Gandhi’s assistance for Smriti Irani The Rupauli seat was held by Bima Bharti, who resigned from Janata Dal (United) and signed up with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in March to object to the Lok Sabha election from Purnia parliamentary seat. She was beat by an independent prospect Rajesh Ranjan. The Bharatiya Janata Party won Hamirpur seat of Himachal Pradesh and it likewise emerged triumphant in Amarwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh. The bypolls are viewed as an essential test for the BJP, which won 240 seats, disappointing the 272 bulk mark and requiring assistance from allies in the NDA union to form a federal government. This contrasts greatly with its 303 and 282-seat triumphes in 2019 and 2014, respectively, where it protected a bulk by itself. With assistance from essential allies like N Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which protected 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar respectively, together with other union partners, the NDA exceeded the midway mark.