Sunetra Pawar secures a massive mandate in Baramati bypoll, rewriting national records and signalling a strong political shift, while the family urges restraint amid emotional victory.
Bhabanipur emerges as one of the closest contests of the election, with Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari exchanging leads amid shifting trends and high political stakes.
Polls closed in Bangladesh on Thursday in a direct contest between Tarique Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and an 11-party alliance led by the resurgent Jamaat-e-Islami, after voting centers shut their gates at 4.30 pm.
Speaking to the media here, he said compared to 2020, 72 lakh more people voted this time. In every assembly constituency, more than 30,000 additional voters turned out.
The remaining 122 constituencies will go to the polls on 11 November, with 1,302 candidates contesting. The results will be announced on 14 November.
The popularity of Chief Minister Adityanath also played a big role in the BJP's election victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
"This defeat shows that we were not completely successful in taking our plans, laws and innovations to the public", Gehlot said in his Tweet-X here.
In West Bengal, elections were held in Karimganj, Kharagpur Sadar and Kaliaganj constituencies, while in Uttarakhand, a bye-election took place in Pithoragarh constituency.
Meanwhile, the BJP parliamentary board is expected to meet today evening at the party headquarters where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address party workers.
According to trends, the Congress is staring at a massive defeat as the party is leading only in 50 seats while the BJP has crossed the 300-mark.
