Assembly bypoll results: Counting of votes on seven seats in six states underway

Counting of votes is underway on Sunday in the byelection to seven assembly constituencies in six states including former chief minister Bhajan Lals family bastion Admapur in HaryanaBhajan Lals grandson Bhavya Bishnoi who contested on a BJP ticket and RJDs Neelam Devi whose husband Anant Singhs disqualification necessitated the byelection in Bihars Mokama are among the prominent candidates in the frayThe other constituencies where results of the November 3 bypolls will be out were Gopalganj in Bihar Andheri East of Maharashtra Munugode of Telangana Gola Gokarannath of Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar of OdishaAmong the seven seats which witnessed a stiff contest between the BJP and the regional parties the saffron party held three and the Congress two while the Shiv Sena and the RJD had one eachFor the bypolls in Bihar the main contest is between the BJP and the RJD and the saffron partys main contenders in Haryana are the Congress INLD and the AAPMain contestants TRS SP and the BJD are taking on the BJP in Telangana Uttar Pradesh and Odisha respectively are taking on the saffron partyThe BJP is seeking to retain the Gola Gokarannath seat in Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar in the BJDruled Odisha banking on sympathy votes as it has fielded the sons of sitting MLAs whose death necessitated the bypollsThe Gola Gokarannath seat fell vacant after the death of BJP MLA Arvind Giri on September 6 With the BSP and the Congress keeping away from the bypolls there seems to be a direct fight between the BJPs Aman Giri and the SP candidate former Gola MLA Vinay TiwariAlso Read Andheri East bypoll result Counting of votes beginsThe BJD has fielded Abanti Das the lone woman among the total five candidates in Dhamnagar BJP MLA Bishnu Charan Sethis death necessitated the byelection The saffron party has fielded Sethis son Suryabanshi SurajThe BJP and the ruling TRS had been campaigning aggressively in Munugode in Telangana where the Congress MLA had resigned and is fighting on the saffron partys ticketIn Adampur the byelection was necessitated after former chief minister Bhajan Lals younger son Kuldeep Bishnoi resigned as MLA from the seat and switched from the Congress to the BJP in August Bishnois son Bhavya is now contesting as the BJP candidateThe Adampur seat has been held by the Bhajan Lal family since 1968 with the late exchief minister representing it on nine occasions his wife Jasma Devi once and Kuldeep on four occasionsBihar saw the first electoral test for the Nitish Kumarled Mahagathbandhan government formed less than three months ago after the JDU parted ways with the BJPThe Mokama and Gopalganj seats in Bihar were earlier held by the RJD and the BJP respectivelyThe BJP is contesting from the Mokama constituency for the first time as the saffron party had on previous occasions left the seat to its allies Both the BJP and the RJD have fielded the wives of local musclemen in the bypollsBJP nominee Sonam Devi is up against RJDs Neelam Devi whose husband Anant Singhs disqualification has necessitated the byelectionMokama is the stronghold of Anant Singh since 2005 He won the seat twice on JDU tickets and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has appealed to voters to support himIn Gopalganj BJP fielded Kusum Devi the wife of deceased party MLA Subhash Singh The RJD fielded Mohan Gupta while Indira Yadav wife of Lalu Yadavs brotherinlaw Sadhu Yadav is contesting as Bahujan Samaj Party BSP candidateShiv Senas Rutuja Latke is expected to comfortably win Andheri East Assembly constituency in Mumbai after the BJP withdrew from the contest which is the first after the recent split in the Shiv Sena following a rebellion by Eknath Shinde who replaced Thackeray as the Maharashtra chief ministerThe NCP and Congress have supported her candidatureThe byelection was necessitated due to the death of Latkes husband and Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke in MayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever