INDIA bloc wins 10 seats, BJP 2, Independent 1 in by-elections
New Delhi: In a boost to the INDIA bloc, its constituents won 10 of the 13 Assembly seats where by-elections were held in seven states of India, while the Bharatiya Janata Party managed to bag only two and an Independent pocketed one seat.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Congress won four seats – two in BJP-ruled Uttarakhand and two in Himachal Pradesh. The TMC bagged all the four seats in West Bengal while the AAP won the Jalandhar West seat in Punjab and the DMK emerged victorious in the Vikravandi constituency in Tamil Nadu.
Voting was held in these seats on July 10.
The Congress hailed the results, saying they “reflect the changing political climate in the country” and it has now become clear that the web of “fear and illusion woven by the BJP has been broken”.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee thanked the people and said the party will dedicate the by-election and the Lok Sabha poll victories to the “martyrs” on its July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin referred to the INDIA bloc’s good show and said BJP should learn lessons from its defeats.
“BJP must realise that without respecting regional sentiments it cannot run the government and the party,” he said. He described his party’s victory as people’s “thanksgiving” to the DMK regime’s welfare schemes.
