New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- In Assembly by-elections, the BJP has retained the Manjalpur seat in Gujarat's Vadodara district, with its candidate, Satendrabhai Patel, defeating Congress nominee Bhikhabhai Rabari by over thirty thousand votes.

According to the Election Commission, Mr Patel secured 55,481 votes, while Mr Rabari polled 24,851 votes after all 20 rounds of counting. The bypoll was necessitated after the seat fell vacant following the death of senior BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Yogesh Patel.

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor has wrested the Bankipur assembly constituency of Bihar, a BJP bastion which the party had never lost since 1995. Mr Kishor defeated his nearest BJP rival Neeraj Kumar by a margin of over nineteen ...