Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha was among the victorious

Bypolls: Tripura CM wins, BJP wrests Rampur, Azamgarh from SP, AAP suffers jolt in Sangrur #IndiaNEWS #India
New Delhi/Lucknow/Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha was among the victorious BJP candidates in the by-poll results announced on Sunday as the party bagged three out of four assembly seats in the eastern state and wrested the Samajwadi Party strongholds of Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, while the AAP lost Punjabs Sangrur parliamentary constituency.
However, there was some cheer for Arvind Kejriwals Aam Aadmi Party as it retained Rajinder Nagar assembly seat in the national capital.
The Congress won a seat each in Tripura, where it opened its account after drawing nil in the last assembly polls, and Jharkhand, while the ruling YSR Congress emerged victorious in Atmakuru Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh.
Counting of votes was held on Sunday for the June 23 by-election to three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi.
In Uttar Pradesh, ruling BJP candidate Ghanshyam Lodhi won the Rampur parliamentary seat by a margin of over 42,000 votes.
Lodhi defeated SPs Mohd Asim Raja, considered close to senior SP leader Mohd Azam Khan who won the seat in 2019 but vacated it after being elected to the assembly.
In Azamgarh, also a pocket borough of the SP and vacated by party chief Akhilesh Yadav after his election to the state assembly, BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua defeated Dharmendra Yadav of SP by a margin of 8,679 votes.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attributed the victory to the work done by the double-engine government of the BJP.
People have sent a message they arent ready to accept dynastic and casteist parties who incite communal tension, he said.
In Delhis Rajinder Nagar, AAPs Durgesh Pathak defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes, officials said.
People defeated their dirty politics and appreciated our good work. Thank you Rajinder Nagar, thank you Delhi, Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal said.
The party, however, suffered a jolt in Punjab as SAD (Amritsar) leader Simranjit Singh Mann won the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat defeating AAPs Gurmail Singh by a margin of 5,822 votes.
The seat was won twice by AAP leader and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
The defeat came just three months after AAP registered a resounding victory in the assembly elections when it won 92 of the 117 assembly segments.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and candidate Mann, 77, has been elected from Sangrur nearly 23 years after winning from the seat in 1999.
The BJP consolidated its position in Tripura winning three of the four assembly seats.
Chief Minister Manik Saha secured 17,181 votes, which is 51. 63 per cent of the total votes polled.
The people who voted for me, I thank them.