BJP wins 5 out of 10 seats, wrests Azamgarh & Rampur

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 26

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday bagged five out of 10 seats as results for the June 23 byelections to three parliamentary and seven Assembly segments across UP, Punjab, Delhi, Jharkhand, Tripura and Andhra Pradesh were declared on Sunday.

Consolidating its gains in Uttar Pradesh, where it had clocked a historic win in the recently held state elections, the BJP wrested Samajwadi Party Lok Sabha strongholds of Azamgarh and Rampur vacated by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and party stalwart Azam Khan.

In Rampur, where the byelection was necessitated after Azam Khan won the Assembly election recently, BJP’s Ghanshyam Lodhi defeated SP’s Asim Raja by a huge margin of 42,192 bagging 51.96% of all votes polled. BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua, a popular face in Bhojpuri films, defeated Akhilesh’s cousin Dharmendra Yadav in Azamgarh by a margin of 8,679 votes. BSP candidate Guddu Jamali, who polled 29.27% of the votes in Azamgarh, played a spoiler for the SP, which had bagged Rampur and Azamgarh in alliance with the BSP in the 2019 LS elections.

In Punjab, SAD(A) nominee Simranjit Singh Mann won the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat. The BJP won three of the four Tripura Assembly seats today, including the Town Bardowali which CM Manik Saha bagged. The Congress, meanwhile, registered victories in two Assembly seats. It won the key seat of Agartala in Tripura which marked the party’s return to the 60-member state Assembly. And, it took Mandar in Jharkhand, where the ruling JMM-backed Congress candidate Shilpi Tirkey defeated her nearest BJP rival notwithstanding the BJP’s move of nominating veteran tribal leader and former Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu as its presidential candidate.

The Mandar bypoll was necessitated after Shilpi Tirkey’s father and the sitting MLA was convicted in a corruption case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that the victory indicated “wide-scale acceptance and support for the double-engine governments at the Centre and in UP”.

The TMC candidates finished fourth in all four Tripura seats and lost their deposits. AAP retained Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar seat with Durgesh Pathak defeating BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by 11,468 votes.

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