Assembly bypolls: Mukul Sangma's daughter wins Ampati seat

ANI  |  New Delhi [India] 

Former Mukul Sangma's daughter and candidate Miani D on Thursday won the Assembly bypoll.

After the results were announced, the party workers celebrated the win in

In the Assembly bypolls held in 10 constituencies of nine states, the ruling also won the by-election after its candidate easily defeated rival Akali Dal's Naib Singh Koha.

"It's a humiliating defeat for BJP. We are going to break them mentally in 2019 Sukhbir Singh Badal should resign soon," said Congress

Meanwhile, the has retained the seat in Uttarakhand, with party nominee Munni defeating her Congress rival

Munni is the widow of BJP's whose death necessitated the bypoll.

has won the constituency with the clear margin of 6211 votes.

SP defeated Avani Singh of the (BJP) by 6211 votes. The bypoll in the seat was necessitated after the death of sitting BJP MLA Lokendra Singh Chouhan. He was a two-time MLA from the seat.

In the two assembly constituency of Jharkhand, where the by-polls were held, the BJP and the Mukti Morcha (JMM) are leading in one-one seats each.

The BJP is leading from Gomia by 7174 votes, while JMM's is ahead by 296 votes from Silli.

In the neighbouring state, the (RJD) won Jokihat assembly seat, which was earlier under (United) (JD-U).

"The number of votes JD-U got, is less than our victory margin. People of are continuing to avenge the U-turn taken by Nitish Kumar," RJD's Tejashwi Yadav said.

The ruling Trinamool Congress' (TMC) Dulal has won the Maheshtala seat.

Post victory, TMC's slammed the Centre and said, "BJP has lost only because of the anti-people policies and communal People have spoken in volumes. Till now our candidate is winning here from 62 thousand votes."

In the southern state of Kerala, the (Marxist) has won the Chengannur assembly seat, which fell vacant after the death of the party sitting in January.

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First Published: Thu, May 31 2018. 16:20 IST