Amit Shah congratulates CMs & BJP workers as party achieves success in many state by-polls

The results for by-polls held in 58 assembly constituencies across 11 states of the country were announced on Tuesday, November 10. In a big success, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed victory in a majority of the states where by-polls were held. Reacting to the results, Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the state heads and the party workers for the resounding victory. He also expressed his gratitude to the people of the states in which BJP won.

The counting of votes for assembly by-poll elections in the 11 states began at 8 am on Tuesday. They were held in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. Meanwhile, vote-counting is also underway in Bihar where the first major electoral exercise was held amid the pandemic.

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BJP wins all eight assembly seats in Gujarat

BJP won all the eight assembly seats in Gujarat. BJP's victory came as a major blow to the opposition Congress which had bagged these constituencies in 2017. The BJP's tally in the 182-member Assembly has now reached 111. The party has also won six out of seven seats in Uttar Pradesh. The remaining one seat has been bagged by Samajwadi Party. Voting for the eight seats was held on November 3 and counting of ballots was taken up on Tuesday. The BJP was also looking set to sweep Madhya Pradesh where it was ahead in 19 of 28 constituencies, according to Election Commission trends.

Votes were also counted for by-elections in Manipur (five seats), Haryana (one), Chhattisgarh (one), Jharkhand (two), Karnataka (two), Nagaland (two), Odisha (two) and Telangana (one).

The votes for the November 3 by-elections were counted along with the ballots for the Bihar polls and progressed in accordance with Election Commission guidelines restricting the number of people in counting halls, officials said. Extensive measures were taken to ensure social distancing.

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Amit Shah congratulates states for winning by-polls

Shah took to Twitter to wish the states in which BJP claimed the maximum seats and won the by-elections with a clear cut majority. He wished the chief ministers and party workers from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur and Telangana.

Here are the tweets of Amit Shah for the different state heads:

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(With inputs from PTI)