"People in the Rajouri Garden assembly constituency were angry after Jarnail Singh resigned".
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Ruling Congress in Karnataka was leading over its principal rival BJP in both the assembly constituencies which went to by-polls on Sunday.
Bypolls were held in the states of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Delhi and Assam.
Sirsa, who belongs to NDA ally Akali Dal and contested in BJP symbol, and Chandela had contested in the 2015 too but lost to Jarnail, who rose to limelight after he threw a shoe at the then Union Minister P Chidambaram at a press conference in protest against Congress giving seats to anti-Sikh riots case accused.
A victory for AAP will be a major boost ahead of the civic polls as it is making all efforts to wrest power from the BJP in the three corporations.
In its reply to the SEC, AAP's Delhi unit convener Dilip Pandey said, "The photo depicts two different parties, their political ideologies and the work done by them".
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Latest reports show that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead in five seats.
Delhi: BJP-SAD leading in Rajouri Garden by 4404 after four rounds.
■ 11.15am: Congress' Kalale N. Keshavamurthy was leading by over 17,500 votes against former minister V. Srinivas Prasad of BJP in Nanjangud after 12 rounds of counting.
West Bengal: TMC's Chandrima Bhattacharya leading by 2935 votes from Kanthi Dakshin.
West Bengal: TMC leads from Kanthi Dakshin seat in east Midnapore district.
The saffron party is trailed by Congress and Arvind Kejriwal led AAP. In both seats, it appears the Congress will buck anti-incumbency.
The by-election was necessitated following disqualification of BSP MLA B.L. Kushwaha in a murder case and the BJP surprised observers by pitting his wife Shobha Rani as its candidate against Congress veteran Banwari Lal Sharma. According to the election office, counting began at 8 AM.
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