New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday attempted to give a different spin to the results of by-elections in 10 Assembly constituencies.
10 by elections, BJP wins 5, non-BJP parties win 5. Are not the honours even?(1/2)? P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) April 14, 2017
The real headline of the day is 'BJP loses ATER seat in MP to Congress'. (2/2)? P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) April 14, 2017
The Congress retained the Ater seat in Bhind district in MP, which has a BJP government, by a close margin of 857 votes. Ater had witnessed violence on the polling day.
Of the five seats won by the BJP, the party retained three while it wrested the remaining two from the AAP in Delhi and the BSP in Rajasthan — Rajouri Garden and Dholpur, respectively.
The BJP retained one seat each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Assam winning from Bandhavgarh, Bhoranj (SC) and Dhemaji, respectively.
Besides Ater, the ruling Congress in Karnataka retained the Nanjangud and Gundlupet Assembly seats in which the party and the BJP had played for high stakes.
The TMC kept the Kanthi Dakshin seat in West Bengal where the BJP finished second while the JMM retained Littipara (ST) Assembly seat in Jharkhand defeating ruling BJP.
(With PTI inputs)
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