JAIPUR: The Congress won the Mandalgarh assembly seat by defeating its nearest rival by a margin of 12976 votes.
The Congress was maintaining a significant lead in Alwar and Ajmer, as per trends available in the counting of votes for the bypolls.
In Alwar, Congress candidate Karan Singh Yadav was leading by 1,40,085 votes over his nearest rival, Jaswant Yadav from the BJP, after rounds of counting.
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In Ajmer, Congress' Raghu Sharma was maintaining a lead of 77868 votes over BJP candidate Ram Swaroop Lamba.
In Mandalgarh, where the BJP was maintaining a lead in the beginning, Congress' Vivek Dhakad won the seat by a margin of 12976 votes.
The BJP had won all the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state in the 2014 general elections.
The party, which wrested power from the Congress in 2013 in Rajasthan, had 161 MLAs in the House of 200. It had strategised raising the tally of seats to 180 in the assembly polls due this year end.
