All eyes are set on counting of votes within the bypolls to seven Assembly seats throughout six states, together with Haryana, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday. The seats the place the votes will likely be counted are Andheri East (Maharashtra), Adampur (Haryana), Gopalganj and Mokama (Bihar), Munugode (Telangana), Gola Gokarannath (Uttar Pradesh) and Dhamnagar (Odisha). The polling was held on November 3.

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>In Haryana’s Adampur, a turnout of over 75 per cent was recorded in the course of the by-election. The final result of the bypoll will determine if former chief minister Bhajan Lal’s household will retain the bastion of 5 a long time. Other events in fray are the Congress, Indian National Lok Dal and Aam Aadmi Party.

> For the bypolls in Bihar, the primary contest is between the BJP and the RJD. BJP chief Kusum Devi is pitted in opposition to RJD’s Mohan Gupta in Gopalganj. In Mokama, BJP nominee Sonam Devi is up in opposition to RJD’s Neelam Devi, the spouse of Anant Sigh. The elections are essential as that is the primary face-off between the ruling Mahagathbandhan and the opposition BJP after the brand new authorities got here to energy within the state in August.

>In Mumbai’s Andheri East bypoll election – the primary in Maharashtra after the collapse of Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities – Rutuja Latke, the candidate of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), is anticipated to win comfortably after the BJP withdrew its nominee from the by-election. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, each constituents of the MVA, have supported Latke’s candidature.

>The BJP is in search of to retain the Gola Gokarannath seat in Uttar Pradesh, which fell vacant after the loss of life of BJP MLA Arvind Giri on September 6. With the BSP and the Congress retaining away from the bypolls, there appears to be a direct battle between the BJP’s Aman Giri and the SP candidate – former Gola MLA Vinay Tiwari.

>Dhamnagar bypoll result’s awaited as a stiff contest is anticipated between ruling BJD candidate Abanti Das and BJP nominee Suryabanshi Suraj, the son of former legislator Bishnu Charan Sethi, whose loss of life necessitated the by-election. BJD insurgent and former MLA Rajendra Das can be within the fray and anticipated to chop some BJD votes.

>Telangana’s Munugode noticed over 93 per cent of the votes polled on Thursday. The BJP and the ruling TRS had campaigned aggressively in Munugode, the place the Congress MLA had resigned and is preventing on the saffron social gathering’s ticket.

(With company inputs)