Lok Sabha by-polls:
Amritsar: Navjot Singh Sidhu of the BJP defeated his nearest rival,Punjab's Finance Minister Surinder Singla of the Congress, by a huge margin of77,626 votes. Sidhu had resigned from the seat in December last year after beingconvicted for culpable homicide in the road rage case.
Tehri: Unofficial figures showed that Congress candidate VijayBahuguna had defeated his BJP rival Manujendra Shah by a margin of 20,000 votes.The result was not officially declared and chief electoral officer N Ravishankersaid it would take some time due to some technicalities. The bypoll wasnecessitated by the death of sitting BJP MP Manavendra Shah, the father ofManujendra. Bahuguna had lost four previous Lok Sabha polls. In 1996, he lost tohis cousin and BJP leader B C Khanduri from the Pauri Lok Sabha seat, while hewas defeated from the Tehri seat by the late Manavendra Shah in 1998, 1999 and2004.
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Assembly Elections: Prominent Winners & Losers
Punjab:
Key Congress winners:
Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister (Patiala Town); Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Deputy CM(Lehra); Amarjit Singh Samra (Nakodar); Lal Singh, Rural Development &Panchayat Minister (Dakala); Kuldeep Bhattal, brother of Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (Dhanoula);Ripjit Singh Brar, brother of senior Congress leader Jagmeet Singh Brar (KotKapura).
Key Congress losers:
Shamsher Singh Dullo, state Congress president (Khanna, Reserved); MohinderSingh Kaypee, (Jalandhar South); Gurkanwal Kaur, daughter of former CM BeantSingh (Jalandhar Cantt); Rakesh Pandey (Ludhiana North); Jagmohan Singh Kang,Animal Husbandry Minister (Morinda).
Prominent SAD winners:
Parkash Singh Badal (Lambi); Gurdip Singh Bhullar (Nur Mahal); Ajit SinghKohar (Lohian); Sarabjit Singh Makkar (Adampur); Jagbir Singh Brar (JalandharCantonment)
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Prominent SAD losers:
Bibi Jagir Kaur, former SGPC president (Bholath); Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal,son of Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal (Kum Kalan); Harmail SinghTohra, son-in-law of G S Tohra (Dakala); Kanwaljit Singh (Banur)
Prominent loser:
Simranjit Singh Mann, SAD-M (Dhanaula)
Prominent BJP winners:
Tikshan Sud (Hoshiarpur); Manoranjan Kalia (Jalandhar Central), BhagatChunni Lal (Jalandhar South), Anil Joshi (Amritsar North), Satpal Gosain, formerDy Speaker (Ludhiana East); Raj Khurana, recently joined the BJP from Congress (Rajpura).
Manipur:
Prominent Congress winners:
Okram Ibobi Singh, Chief Minister (Thoubal and Khangabok); Th. Debendra Singh,Forest Minister (Jiribam); L. Nandakumar Singh, Education Minister (Uripok);Konthouam Govindas, Works Minister; Phungzathang Tonsing, Power Minister (Churachandpur);T N Haokip, Information Minister (Saikot).
Prominent Congress losers:
Francis Ngajokpa, Horticulture Minister (Tadubi); W. Leima, CooperationMinister; Assembly Speaker Manir Udin Sheikh and Chairman, Manipur TribalDevelopment Corporation, Chaltonlien Amo (Tipaimukh).
Prominent Manipur People's Party winner:
O. Joy Singh, former Speaker (Langthabal)
Key MPP losers:
L. Chandramani Singh, party president and former Dy CM (Patsoi); R DorendraSingh (Yaiskul); Nimaichand Luwang, former medical minister (Wangkhem)
Prominent NCP winner:
Radhabinod Koijam (Thangmeiband)
Prominent loser:
W. Nipamacha Singh, state RJD president and former CM (Wangoi)
Uttarakhand:
Key Congress winner:
Yashpal Arya (Mukteshwar)
Prominent Congress losers:
Indira Hridayesh, Information Minister (Haldwani); Hira Singh Bist,Transport Minister; Narendra Singh Bhandari, Education Minister; Nav Prabhat,Forest Minister.
Prominent BJP winner:
Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, state president (Kapkot)
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Key BJP loser:
Nityanand Swami, former CM (Laxman Chowk)
Other key loser:
Kashi Singh Airy, UKD chief (Kanalchhina)
