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Counting of votes for three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly seats across 13 states and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli begins.
The assembly by-elections were held on Saturday for five seats in Assam, four in Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat each is in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.
Of the 29 seats, the BJP held six seats, the Congress nine. The rest were with regional parties.
The Lok Sabha seats for which by-elections were held are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. Sitting MPs in all the three seats had died neccessitating the bypolls.
In Mandi, wife of former CM Virbhadra Singh, Pratibha Singh, is contesting against BJP candidate Khushal Singh Thakur.
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Bypolls: Counting on for 3 Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly seats in 13 states

Bypolls: Counting of votes is on for 3 Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly seats in 13 states

Bypolls: Counting begins for 3 Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly seats in 13 states

Lok Sabha&nbsp;&amp; Assembly by-elections in 13 states,&nbsp;Dadra and Nagar Haveli
3 Lok&nbsp;Sabha&nbsp;bypolls&nbsp;in Mandi, Kahndwa and&nbsp;Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Of the 29 seats, the BJP held six seats, the Congress nine
Mandi: Ex-CM Virbhadra's&nbsp;wife Vs BJP's&nbsp;Khushal Singh Thakur.

The Lok Sabha seats for which by-elections were held are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh

Counting of votes for three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly seats across 13 states and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli is on.
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In Assam, BJP is leading in 4 seats, im MP the ruling party is ahead in all 4 seats. In Bihar, RJD and JDU are leading in one seat each.
In Lok Sabha seats, Congress is leading in Mandi, while BJP is ahead in Khandwa seat in MP.
The assembly by-elections were held on Saturday for five seats in Assam, four in Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat each is in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.
Of the 29 seats, the BJP held six seats, the Congress nine. The rest were with regional parties.
The Lok Sabha seats for which by-elections were held are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. Sitting MPs in all the three seats had died neccessitating the bypolls.
In Mandi, wife of former CM Virbhadra Singh, Pratibha Singh, is contesting against BJP candidate Khushal Singh Thakur.
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A wheel-chair bound Mamata Banerjee, early this year,&nbsp;thwarted the BJP juggernaut&nbsp;but as the saffron party failed to breach India&rsquo;s political&nbsp;Troy, the tigress of Bengal&nbsp;couldn&rsquo;t win Nandigram- the place wherefrom she had&nbsp;led&nbsp;a revolution to dislodge the&nbsp;banyan&nbsp;Left.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Suvendu Adhikari, her friend turned foe, claimed Nandigram, forcing the chief minister to contest from her bastion Bhawanipur.&nbsp;At stake is the chief minister post and Didi is in the ring with BJP&rsquo;s&nbsp;Priyanka Tibrewal, credited with drawing legal course for complaints on&nbsp;post-poll violence in Bengal.&nbsp;Both women native to Bengal, both confident, this contest then is inevitably gripping and send a reminder of such electoral battles in the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The year was 1984, but not that Orwellian yet.&nbsp;Many royals in India were taking the electoral plunges after Indira Gandhi&rsquo;s move to strip them of&nbsp;control.&nbsp;Most&nbsp;royals&nbsp;abhorred the Congress and aligned&nbsp;with the Jan Sangh, BJP&rsquo;s root party.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Madhavrao Scindia Vs Atal Bihari Vajpayee&nbsp;Ladai ghar&nbsp;ghar ki&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Maharaja of Gwalior Jiwajirao Scindia&nbsp;had a great role in the mentorship of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a scholarship from rajgharana had ensured that the former Prime Minister completed his&nbsp;education.&nbsp;So, when the BJP stalwart decided to fight the Lok Sabha&nbsp;elections,&nbsp;he had clear blessing from&nbsp;Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia,&nbsp;who&nbsp;was the then vice-president of the&nbsp;BJP.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;Vajpayee ended up locking&nbsp;horns with Her&nbsp;Majesty&rsquo;s son&nbsp;Madhav Rao Scindia after Congress put him up as a candidate&nbsp;on the last day of filing nominations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vajpayee decided to fight from neighbouring Bhind,&nbsp;but couldn&rsquo;t make it in time to file his paper. As the epic poll battle ensued so did ladai ghar ghar ki.&nbsp;Rajmata campaigned for Vajpayee, calling her subjects to vote against her son.&nbsp;&nbsp;BJP won only 2 seats in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections. Gwalior wasn&rsquo;t one of them. The&nbsp;Scindia&nbsp;defeated Vajpayee by a margin of over 1.75 lakh votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sonia Gandhi Vs Sushma Swaraj&nbsp;Foreign Bahu Vs Indian Beti&nbsp;Desi-Videshi&nbsp;Narrative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1999, Sonia Gandhi contested the Lok Sabha election from two constituencies- Karnataka&rsquo;s Bellary and Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s Amethi.&nbsp;&nbsp;Although she won both the seats, the Bellary poll wasn&rsquo;t your average election battle.&nbsp;&nbsp;To fight the Congress leader, BJP fielded one of its fiercest orators - Sushma Swaraj.&nbsp;Sonia&nbsp;couldn&rsquo;t interact much with the public or the press due to security reasons.&nbsp;Connecting with the crowd was Swaraj&rsquo;s forte.&nbsp;Swaraj came to impress. The multilingual leader learned Kannada and gave speeches in the language.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn&rsquo;t exactly a polite campaign- BJP used the &lsquo;foreign vs desi&rsquo; trope, its perennial offence against&nbsp;the&nbsp;Italy-born Sonia Gandhi.&nbsp;&nbsp;But at the end, the &lsquo;foreign bahu&rsquo; had the last laugh.&nbsp;She&nbsp;won the election albeit by a margin of over 56,000 votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sushma Swaraj proved to be a worthy rival and cemented Bellary as a safe haven for BJP - the party has won the seat four times since 1999.&nbsp;&nbsp;Arvind Kejriwal Vs&nbsp;Shiela&nbsp;Dixit&nbsp;The Rookie Vs&nbsp;The&nbsp;Warhorse&nbsp;Anarchy in Lutyens&nbsp;&nbsp;On December 8,&nbsp;much before the Election Commission announced the final results of the 2013 Assembly Elections, New Delhi&rsquo;s 3-time Chief Minister and Congress warhorse&nbsp;Shiela&nbsp;Dixit sent her resignation to the Capital's Lieutenant Governor.&nbsp;&nbsp;Surrounded by press at her residence, Dixit accepted her defeat with humility. But when a journalist asked if Congress had perhaps failed to read the pulse of the city, Dixit famously retorted &lsquo;we are&nbsp;fools&rsquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;In retrospect, it was indeed foolish for the grand old party to not grasp the strong anti-incumbency emotion in the capital.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was also perhaps unwise to not acknowledge the rising clout of the rookie&nbsp;aam&nbsp;aadmi, Arvind Kejriwal.&nbsp;&nbsp;He had filed his papers on the last day of the nomination process to ensure his contest with Dixit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Campaigning on issues of corruption, women&rsquo;s safety, electricity and water tariffs, the debutant politician pulled a stunning victory, defeating Dixit with a margin of over 25,000 votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Underestimated, unacknowledged&nbsp;the broom swiped the Congress giant and laid the foundation of Aam Aadmi Party in the capital.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Smriti Irani Vs Rahul Gandhi&nbsp;Fall of the Gandhi Bastion&nbsp;&nbsp;An important battle in India&rsquo;s contemporary politics, 2019 Lok Sabha&rsquo;s Amethi election redefined the political landscape for Congress in both Uttar Pradesh and at the national level.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rahul Gandhi lost his family bastion to BJP&rsquo;s Smriti Zubin Irani. Historically a Congress citadel, Amethi voted for Irani who won by a margin of over 55,000 votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The BJP leader had contested against the Congress heir before in 2014- but back then Gandhi held on to the pocket borough with a margin of over 1.07 lakh votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Irani continued to visit Amethi, determined to clash with Gandhi again and win. She continued to visit the constituency after poll defeat. Her relentless and consistent campaigning overpowered Priyanka Gandhi Vadra&rsquo;s canvassing for her brother in 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;On May 23, day of the counting, even though early trends suggested her lead, Irani waited. Rahul Gandhi accepted his defeat with humility and congratulated Irani.&nbsp;&nbsp;At 6:08 pm, quoting poet Dushyant Kumar, the BJP leader tweeted his famous words-&nbsp;kaun&nbsp;kehta hai&nbsp;aasmaa&nbsp;may suraakh&nbsp;nahi&nbsp;ho sakta

In-Depth: Epic Poll Battles of History

Some electoral battles can make or break politicians and change the public discourse for a party. From causing anarchy in Lutyens to leading to the fall of the Gandhi bastion, here's a look at some poll contests that are hard to forget. 

When political giants lock horn, or ambitious rookies challenge the existing&nbsp;order- some poll battles are capable of redefining&nbsp;political landscapes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

A wheel-chair bound Mamata Banerjee, early this year,&nbsp;thwarted the BJP juggernaut&nbsp;but as the saffron party failed to breach India&rsquo;s political&nbsp;Troy, the tigress of Bengal&nbsp;couldn&rsquo;t win Nandigram- the place wherefrom she had&nbsp;led&nbsp;a revolution to dislodge the&nbsp;banyan&nbsp;Left.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Suvendu Adhikari, her friend turned foe, claimed Nandigram, forcing the chief minister to contest from her bastion Bhawanipur.&nbsp;At stake is the chief minister post and Didi is in the ring with BJP&rsquo;s&nbsp;Priyanka Tibrewal, credited with drawing legal course for complaints on&nbsp;post-poll violence in Bengal.&nbsp;Both women native to Bengal, both confident, this contest then is inevitably gripping and send a reminder of such electoral battles in the past.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The year was 1984, but not that Orwellian yet.&nbsp;Many royals in India were taking the electoral plunges after Indira Gandhi&rsquo;s move to strip them of&nbsp;control.&nbsp;Most&nbsp;royals&nbsp;abhorred the Congress and aligned&nbsp;with the Jan Sangh, BJP&rsquo;s root party.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Madhavrao Scindia Vs Atal Bihari Vajpayee&nbsp; Ladai ghar&nbsp;ghar ki&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The Maharaja of Gwalior Jiwajirao Scindia&nbsp;had a great role in the mentorship of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a scholarship from rajgharana had ensured that the former Prime Minister completed his&nbsp;education.&nbsp;So, when the BJP stalwart decided to fight the Lok Sabha&nbsp;elections,&nbsp;he had clear blessing from&nbsp;Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia,&nbsp;who&nbsp;was the then vice-president of the&nbsp;BJP.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;Vajpayee ended up locking&nbsp;horns with Her&nbsp;Majesty&rsquo;s son&nbsp;Madhav Rao Scindia after Congress put him up as a candidate&nbsp;on the last day of filing nominations.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Vajpayee decided to fight from neighbouring Bhind,&nbsp;but couldn&rsquo;t make it in time to file his paper. As the epic poll battle ensued so did ladai ghar ghar ki.&nbsp;Rajmata campaigned for Vajpayee, calling her subjects to vote against her son.&nbsp; &nbsp; BJP won only 2 seats in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections. Gwalior wasn&rsquo;t one of them. The&nbsp;Scindia&nbsp;defeated Vajpayee by a margin of over 1.75 lakh votes.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sonia Gandhi Vs Sushma Swaraj&nbsp; Foreign Bahu Vs Indian Beti&nbsp; Desi-Videshi&nbsp;Narrative&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; In 1999, Sonia Gandhi contested the Lok Sabha election from two constituencies- Karnataka&rsquo;s Bellary and Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s Amethi.&nbsp; &nbsp; Although she won both the seats, the Bellary poll wasn&rsquo;t your average election battle.&nbsp;&nbsp; To fight the Congress leader, BJP fielded one of its fiercest orators - Sushma Swaraj.&nbsp;Sonia&nbsp;couldn&rsquo;t interact much with the public or the press due to security reasons.&nbsp;Connecting with the crowd was Swaraj&rsquo;s forte.&nbsp; Swaraj came to impress. The multilingual leader learned Kannada and gave speeches in the language.&nbsp; &nbsp; It wasn&rsquo;t exactly a polite campaign- BJP used the &lsquo;foreign vs desi&rsquo; trope, its perennial offence against&nbsp;the&nbsp;Italy-born Sonia Gandhi.&nbsp; &nbsp; But at the end, the &lsquo;foreign bahu&rsquo; had the last laugh.&nbsp;She&nbsp;won the election albeit by a margin of over 56,000 votes.&nbsp; &nbsp; Sushma Swaraj proved to be a worthy rival and cemented Bellary as a safe haven for BJP - the party has won the seat four times since 1999.&nbsp; &nbsp; Arvind Kejriwal Vs&nbsp;Shiela&nbsp;Dixit&nbsp; The Rookie Vs&nbsp;The&nbsp;Warhorse&nbsp; Anarchy in Lutyens&nbsp; &nbsp; On December 8,&nbsp;much before the Election Commission announced the final results of the 2013 Assembly Elections, New Delhi&rsquo;s 3-time Chief Minister and Congress warhorse&nbsp;Shiela&nbsp;Dixit sent her resignation to the Capital's Lieutenant Governor.&nbsp; &nbsp; Surrounded by press at her residence, Dixit accepted her defeat with humility. But when a journalist asked if Congress had perhaps failed to read the pulse of the city, Dixit famously retorted &lsquo;we are&nbsp;fools&rsquo;.&nbsp; &nbsp; In retrospect, it was indeed foolish for the grand old party to not grasp the strong anti-incumbency emotion in the capital.&nbsp; &nbsp; It was also perhaps unwise to not acknowledge the rising clout of the rookie&nbsp;aam&nbsp;aadmi, Arvind Kejriwal.&nbsp; &nbsp; He had filed his papers on the last day of the nomination process to ensure his contest with Dixit.&nbsp; &nbsp; Campaigning on issues of corruption, women&rsquo;s safety, electricity and water tariffs, the debutant politician pulled a stunning victory, defeating Dixit with a margin of over 25,000 votes.&nbsp; &nbsp; Underestimated, unacknowledged&nbsp;the broom swiped the Congress giant and laid the foundation of Aam Aadmi Party in the capital.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Smriti Irani Vs Rahul Gandhi&nbsp; Fall of the Gandhi Bastion&nbsp; &nbsp; An important battle in India&rsquo;s contemporary politics, 2019 Lok Sabha&rsquo;s Amethi election redefined the political landscape for Congress in both Uttar Pradesh and at the national level.&nbsp; &nbsp; Rahul Gandhi lost his family bastion to BJP&rsquo;s Smriti Zubin Irani. Historically a Congress citadel, Amethi voted for Irani who won by a margin of over 55,000 votes.&nbsp; &nbsp; The BJP leader had contested against the Congress heir before in 2014- but back then Gandhi held on to the pocket borough with a margin of over 1.07 lakh votes.&nbsp; &nbsp; Irani continued to visit Amethi, determined to clash with Gandhi again and win. She continued to visit the constituency after poll defeat. Her relentless and consistent campaigning overpowered Priyanka Gandhi Vadra&rsquo;s canvassing for her brother in 2019.&nbsp; &nbsp; On May 23, day of the counting, even though early trends suggested her lead, Irani waited. Rahul Gandhi accepted his defeat with humility and congratulated Irani.&nbsp; &nbsp; At 6:08 pm, quoting poet Dushyant Kumar, the BJP leader tweeted his famous words-&nbsp; kaun&nbsp;kehta hai&nbsp;aasmaa&nbsp;may suraakh&nbsp;nahi&nbsp;ho sakta

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