1. 1. n Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party is now leading in nine of 11 assembly seats
for which bye-elections were held. Ten of those were held by the BJP, vacated by
legislators who became MPs as the party virtually swept the state in national
elections four months ago. (A Mulayam Jolt for BJP in Early Trends in UP)
2. By-elections were also held for one Lok Sabha seat - Mainpuri, vacated by
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. The party looks set to retain Mainpuri,
where Mulayam Singh's grand-nephew Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, 26, makes his
political debut.
3. In Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state, the BJP's perfect score of 26-0 in
the May national elections remains unblemished with it's candidate winning
Vadodara, the one Lok Sabha seat where by-elections were held after Mr Modi
vacated it choosing to keep Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh as his parliamentary
constituency.
4. But the Congress, flattened in the state four months ago, has wrested from the BJP
two of the nine seats it had vacated, necessitating by-elections.