Live updates: TMC sweeps assembly bypolls, BJP keeps MP, Cong wins in HP

Three Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly constituencies held by-elections on October 30.

5:31 PM

Trinamool wins 4 seats in Bengal, rivals bag none

The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday won four assembly seats that held by-elections on October 30. It wrested Dinhata and Santipur from the BJP to raise its tally to 215 in the 294-member West Bengal assembly. Trinamool retained the Khardah and Gosaba assembly seats, PTI reported.

5:21 PM

Shiv Sena wins Dadra and Nagar Lok Sabha seat

Shiv Sena candidate Kalaben Delkar won the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha seat after a by-election on October 30, reports the Indian Express. "First step outside Maharashtra, giant leap towards Delhi via Dadra Nagar Haveli," said Sena MP Sanjay Raut, referring to his party’s alliance government in the western state.

5:17 PM

Amarinder Singh resigns from Congress

Amarinder Singh resigns from the Congress party weeks after he was made to resign as Punjab’s chief minister, reports PTI. Singh last week said he would form his own political party.

5:02 PM

BJP, ally set to win 5 seats in Assam

The ruling BJP and an ally won a seat each in assembly by-polls in Assam and they parties are leading in the other three seats on Tuesday, PTI reported. BJP candidate Sushanta Borgohain won the Thowra seat, while United People's Party, Liberal (UPPL) nominee Jiron Basumatary pocketed the Gossaigaon constituency.

4:46 PM

BJP wins one seat in Karnataka, loses another

The ruling BJP on Tuesday won the Sindgi assembly seat in Karntaka and lost Hangal to the Congress party in bypolls held on October 30. The BJP’s loss in Hangal is a setback to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, as it neighbours his Shiggaon assembly segment in Haveri district. Bommai had extensively campaigned in Hangal, PTI reported.

 

4:12 PM

Congress heads for sweep in Himachal

The Congress party won three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh and is leading in the Mandi Lok Sabha seat, dealing a blow to the ruling BJP in the state. The party retained Fatehpur and Arki Assembly seats and wrested Jubbal-Kotkhai seat from the BJP, PTI reported. 

3:47 PM

BJP wins assembly seat in MP

The BJP has won Jobat reserved assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh by 6,080 votes, the Indian Express reported. BJP candidate Sulochna Rawat got 68,752 votes and Congress's Mahesh Patel 62,672.

3:42 PM

Abhay Chautala wins Haryana seat

Abhay Chautala, leader of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), wins the Ellenabad assembly seat in Haryana's Sirsa district by more than 6,500 votes.

 

3:27 PM

Congress wins Rajasthan assembly seat, leading in another

Congress candidate Nagraj Meena on Tuesday won the Dhariawad assembly seat in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district by 18,725 votes, PTI reported. Preeti Shaktawat, Congress candidate in Vallabhnagar, is leading by 17,391 votes. Bypolls were held on October 30. 

3:18 PM

JD (U) retains in Bihar assembly seat in bypoll

The Janata Dal (United) of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday retained the reserved assembly seat of Kusheshwar Asthan, defeating former chief minister Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal by more than 12,000 votes, PTI reported.

3:06 PM

Congress wins 3 assembly seats in Himachal, ahead in Mandi Lok Sabha seat

The Congress has won wins all three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh and it is ahead in Mandi Lok Sabha constitutency, NDTV.com reports.

2:49 PM

Trinamool wins Dinhata and Khardah bypolls in Bengal

Trinamool Congress candidate Udayan Guha wins the Dinhata assembly by-election by 164,089 votes. Party leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay wins Khardah by 93,832 votes, PTI reports.

 

2:44 PM

Congress candidate leads in Himachal Lok Sabha seat

Congress candidate Pratibha Singh is leading in in the Lok Sabha seat of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, reports NDTV.com. Singh, wife of late chief minister Virbhadra Singh, ahead after trailing the BJP's Khushal Thakur BJP candidate Gyaneshwar Patil is ahead in the Khandwa Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh. In Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the Shiv Sena is ahead.

 

2:37 PM

Meghalaya bypolls: Ruling NPP wins Rajabala assembly seat, leads in another

Meghalaya's ruling party NPP on Tuesday won Rajabala assembly constituency as its candidate Md. Abdus Saleh defeated his nearest opponent Hashina Yashmin Mondal of the Congress by a margin of over 1,900 votes, the Indian Express reported.

1:34 PM

Ex-Maha home minister Anil Deshmukh produced in court by ED for remand

Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh was on Tuesday produced before a special court here by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) following his arrest in a money laundering case.

 

Deshmukh was produced for remand before additional sessions judge P B Jadhav, who is presiding over the special holiday court, a little after noon.

 

The ED is likely to seek his custody for further questioning.