- "The people of India are with Narendra Modi," Mr Kumar declared in parliament as reports came in that the BJP has won the Nepanagar assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh and is leading in the Shahdol Lok Sabha seat. It will retain both seats if it wins Shahdol.
- In Assam, like Madhya Pradesh a BJP-ruled state, the BJP is leading by a huge margin in the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha seat vacated by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
- Results are being announced today for by-elections held for four parliament and 10 assembly constituencies in six states - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu - and one union territory, Puducherry.
- In Arunachal Pradesh, Desingu Pul, the wife of former chief minister Kalikho Pul, who committed suicide in August, is contesting his assembly seat Hayuliang as a BJP candidate. The BJP backs the state government after Chief Minister Pema Khandu broke away from the Congress.
- In West Bengal, by-elections were held for one assembly seat - Monteswar - and two parliament seats - Coochbehar and Tamluk - all held by the Trinamool Congress of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The party is set to win back all three seats.
- In Tamil Nadu, by-elections were held for Thanjavur and Aravakurichi assembly seats where polling was cancelled during the state elections this year because of allegations that parties were bribing voters. Also for the Thiruparankundram assembly seat. All three are direct contests between the ruling AIADMK and chief opposition the DMK.
- Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy of the Congress has won the Nellithope Assembly seat. Mr Narayanasamy is a Lok Sabha lawmaker and needed to become a member of the state assembly within six months of being sworn in chief minister in May.
- In Tripura, the Congress and the ruling CPM are defending an assembly seat each in Barjala and Khowai.
- These were the first elections after the currency ban, over which a united opposition has attacked the government calling its implementation of the demonetisation faulty and without concern for the poor who have suffered hardships because of the cash crunch that has followed.
- The government has said these are teething problems in a massive exercise to root out corruption and that it has the people's support. PM Modi has promised to fix the cash problem in 50 days.
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