Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said that despite the defeat, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) made a dent in the BJP s core vote bank after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate won the Gopalganj bypoll by a close margin.
As the results of Assembly bypolls held in seven seats spread across six states were announced, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to win four seats while parties like Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Shiv Sena of Uddhav Thackeray faction bagged one seat each in their respective States of dominance.
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Patna/Lucknow/Hyderabad, Nov. 2 (PTI): Voting will be held on Thursday in bypolls to seven assembly seats in six states – a contest symbolic of the fierce turf war between the BJP and regional parties. While in Haryana former chief minister Bhajan Lal’s family is trying to hold on to its bastion of five decades, Bihar will see the first electoral test for the Nitish Kumar-led ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government, formed less than three months ago after the JD(U) parted ways with the BJP. The saffron party is seeking to retain Gola Gorakhnath seat in Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar in BJD-ruled Odisha, banking on sympathy votes as it has fielded the sons of sitting MLAs whose death necessitated the bypolls. The BJP and the ruling TRS had been campaigning aggressively in Manugoda in Telangana, where the Congress MLA had resigned and is fighting on the saffron party’s ticket. The Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements for polling, including the deployment of