Trinamool Congress and BSP emerged victorious in the West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh Assembly by-elections, with the Congress claiming the all important Firozabad Lok Sabha seat from Samajwadi Party.
As a result the Left and Smajwadi Party took quite a beating; Congress took eight of the ten seats in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Kerala and Chhattisgarh while the BJP took the remaining two. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) clearly had the advantage as it took eight of eleven Assembly seats in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Incidentally the BSP in Uttar Pradesh had faired badly in Lok Sabha elections in May.
Congress retained all three seats up for grabs in Kerala, and the party could very well topple the CPM in mid 2011 during the state polls. In Kannur, AP Abdulla Kutty, who is the former CPI-M Lok Sabha member beat MV Jayarajan of the CPI-M by over 12,000 votes. In Ernakulam, Dominic Presentation defeated CPI-M's PN Seenulal by more than 8,000 votes. In Alappuzha, AA Shukur defeated G Krishnaprasad of the Communist Party of India (CPI) by over 5,000 votes.
Mayawati emerged as a big winner in the UP as she bagged eight of 11 assembly seats. Mulayam Singh was the biggest loser as SP rebel and former actor Raj Babbar won by a thumping 85,000-odd votes, beating Dimple Yadav, the daughter-in-law of the SP leader. Raj Babbar had quit the Samajwadi Party to join the Congress.
In West Bengal, Trinamool won seven seats and Congress one. In Rajasthan the Congress and BJP each won one seat. But in Assam the Congress won both the seats, and the party is also leading Jawali, even though Rohru seems to be going BJP’s way.
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