Meeting bypolls: Cong-led UDF wins in Kerala, AAP registers wins in Punjab, Gujarat

The outcomes to the 5 meeting bypolls, held on June 19 in Kerala, Punjab, Gujarat and West Bengal, threw up some surprises on Monday, 23 June.

In Kerala, the Congress-led UDF wrested the Nilambur seat from the ruling LDF with its candidate Aryadan Shoukath, son of the late Congress stalwart Aryadan Muhammed, defeating CPI(M) state secretariat member M. Swaraj, by over 11,000 votes, in line with the Election Fee of India (ECI) web site. It’s value noting that that is the primary time the LDF has misplaced a seat held by it to its political rivals.

It was excellent news for the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) in Gujarat the place its candidate Gopal Italia defeated BJP’s Kirit Patel by a margin of 17,554 votes. AAP additionally retained the Ludhiana West seat in Punjab with its candidate Sanjeev Arora defeating his nearest rival and Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu by a margin of 10,637 votes. The BJP candidate was in third place.

The ruling BJP in Gujarat retained the Kadi (SC reserved) seat with Rajendra Chavda defeating Ramesh Chavda (Congress) by an enormous margin.

In West Bengal it was Alifa Ahmed of the Trinamool Congress who received the Kaliganj meeting seat by a landslide margin of fifty,049 votes over her nearest BJP rival Ashish Ghosh.

The bypolls within the 5 constituencies have been held on June 19.