Speaking to ANI, Mumtaz Patel said, "I would like to congratulate Gopal Italia for winning elections. In today's bye-election, the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party have one seat each. They have retained their seats. Congress has won in Kerala. TMC has won in West Bengal. The organisation (Gujarat
"The public contested these elections... I was only a medium. When the people contest the elections themselves, it is confirmed that the results would be historic... The BJP did everything to win these elections... This is people's win," Italia said while speaking to ANI.
While most of the parties like Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) retained their seats in this by-elections, but the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government in Kerala faced a major blow, as the alliance failed to retain its Nilambur assembly seat.
The AAP retained the seat as the by-election was necessitated following the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Singh Gogi in January. Voting took place on June 19.
After AAP's sweeped victory in the Ludhiana West assembly bypoll on Monday, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring dismissed the result and said that the ruling party secured the win through money and muscle power.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday held protest against West Bengal government after a 13-year-old girl died in a bomb explosion at the Trinamool Congresss' victory procession organised after the party swept Kaliganj Assembly bypoll.
A 13-year-old girl died in a bomb explosion during a victory procession organised by Trinamool Congress in Kaliganj police station area after the party swept Kaliganj Assembly bypoll.
The AAP party workers celebrated the election results in Gujarat, as Gopal Italia defeated BJP's Kirit Patel by 17,554 votes, garnering 75,942 votes in total.
convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said in a press conference that the results of the Visavadar and Ludhiana West by-elections indicate that people are "fed up with the BJP".
Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday congratulated the people of Gujarat and Punjab after the party's candidate emerged victorious in the bypolls in Visavadar and Ludhiana West and said that people rejected Congress and BJP in both the constituen
TMC's Alifa Ahmed maintains a commanding lead of 33,255 votes over BJP's Ashish Ghosh in the Kaliganj by-election after 14 rounds of counting. Mamata Banerjee expressed her gratitude to voters and dedicated the victory to the late legislator Nasiruddin Ahmed.
Punjab AAP president and state minister Aman Arora said, "The credit goes to Arvind Kejriwal's policies, the Bhagwant Mann government's works, the hard work of our workers and volunteers and the decency of Sanjeev Arora."