Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, May 31: In a major setback the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today lost prestigious Kairana parliamentary seat where combined opposition candidate Tabassum Hasan (RLD) trounced BJP’s Mriganka Singh. The by-election was necessitated after the death of Mriganka’s father Hukum Singh. The Samajwadi Party’s Naeemul Hasan defeated the BJP by a margin of 6600 votes in Nurpur assembly seats in Bijnaur. In Kairana, the BJP was defeated by a margin of around 50,000.
In Maharashtra, however the BJP won the palghar seat by defeating the Shiv Sena candidate. But Bhadara-Gondiya seat went to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). In Karnataka, where the JD(S) and Congress alliance has formed the government last week, the lone seat of RR Nagar in Bangalore went to Congress in by-poll. In Bihar, the RJD of Lalloo Prasad Yadav trounced Janata Dal (U) in Jokhihat. In Meghalaya, the Congress has become largest single party by winning Amipathi seat. Now in Meghalaya the Congress has 21 MLAs. In West Bengal, TMC has won Maheshtala. The JMM has won Gomiya and Silli seats in alliance with Congress in Jharkhand. Similarly in Punjab the Congress has won Shahkot and Paaluskeda Goan seat in Maharashtra. In Kerala CPI (M) has won Chengannur and BJP in Tharali in Uttrakhand. In Nagaland NDPP has won Nagaland Lok seat.
