The Opposition INDIA alliance, which gave a tough fight to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, has come out on top in the by-elections to 13 Assembly seats across seven states. The INDIA bloc has won the Jalandhar seat and is ahead on 10 other seats
In Punjab, AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat won the Jalandhar West seat by over 23,000 votes. In West Bengal, Trinamool Congress candidates have taken the lead in four seats, with BJP trailing behind in each constituency.
In Himachal Pradesh, Congress candidates have secured leads in two seats, while BJP’s Ashish Sharma is ahead in Hamirpur. In Uttarakhand, Congress candidates have taken the lead in both Badrinath and Manglaur seats.
In Madhya Pradesh, Congress’s Dheeran Shah Invati has secured a lead of over 4,000 votes in the Amarwar seat. Meanwhile, in Bihar, JD(U)’s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal has taken the lead in Rupauli, and in Tamil Nadu, DMK’s Anniyur Siva is leading by over 10,000 votes in the Vikravandi assembly seat.
These bypolls were the first since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which saw the BJP winning 240 seats – 32 short of the majority. The NDA, however, managed to cross the halfway mark of 272 with a total tally of 293 seats. The Congress-led INDIA bloc clinched 232 seats.