Cong MP Pramod Tiwari congratulates SP on Ghosi bypoll win, says it’s a glimpse of Lok Sabha polls

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 8 (ANI): Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Friday congratulated the Samajwadi Party on their victory in Ghosi bypolls. 
Speaking to ANI on Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi bypolls results, Tiwari said, "I congratulate the Samajwadi Party on their victory in the Ghosi bypolls. This shows that the INDIA alliance is leading across the nation. This is the glimpse of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls". 
Samajwadi Party's Sudhakar Singh defended Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi constituency. 
"Now the public wants a change. This was a trailer of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024", Tiwari added. 
Earlier today, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav also said that this is the win of the INDIA alliance. 
In a post shared on his X handle, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said that the people of Ghosi not only helped the candidate of the Samajwadi Party win but also of the INDIA alliance.
"We have won, and now this will be the result of tomorrow (2024 Lok Sabha elections) also," the post read.
Today, the results for the bypolls in seven Assembly seats of six states--Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura, Kerala-- were declared.
These bypolls were seen as crucial, as they are considered to be a litmus test for the opposition's Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) against the ruling BJP ahead of the next year's general elections.
Out of the seven Assembly seats, BJP has won three seats--Boxanagar, Dhanpur and Bageshwar--while the candidates of the INDIA alliance in the remaining including Ghosi are nearing victory with a handsome majority.
The Ghosi bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of Dara Singh Chauhan, who had won the seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, from the Samajwadi Party in July. He switched over to the BJP and was fielded by the party in the bypoll. (ANI)