NEW DELHI: The BJP and its allies today made gains in the Assembly bye-elections winning seven of the 12 seats in eight states when the party inflicted blows on ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and Congress in Karnataka.
BJP won the communally sensitive and politically significant Muzaffarnagar seat in UP where SP lost two of the three seats, one of which to Congress in Deoband. The Congress was jolted in Karnataka where it lost two of the three seats on offer. The BJP bagged two.
The party also snatched the Maihar seat in Madhya Pradesh from Congress, months after suffering a defeat at its hands in the Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha bypoll.
In the other four states, ruling parties–BJP and its allies Shiv Sena and Akali Dal as also TRS and CPI (M)–won in the by-elections for a lone seat in Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana and Tripura respectively. (AGENCIES)
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