Ruling parties leading in Lok Sabha bypoll

NEW DELHI: BJP candidate Ranjanben Bhatt today surged ahead of rival Congress nominee Narendra Rawat in Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while the ruling Samajwadi Party and TRS were leading in a seat each in UP and Telanganga where bypolls were held.

Bypolls were held in three Lok Sabha seats in Vadodara (Gujarat), Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) and Medak (Telangana) on September 13.

An election officer said in Vadodara that "Ranjanben Bhatt now has a lead of 2,34,377 votes against her rival Congress nominee from Vadodara Lok Sabha seat at the end of 12 rounds of counting."

In Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, SP supremo Mulayam Singh's grand nephew Tej Pratap was leading over his nearest rival BJP's Prem Singh Shakya.

The ruling TRS has established a lead in the counting of votes for by-election to Medak Lok Sabha constituency.

TRS's T K Prabhakar Reddy was leading by a huge margin of more than 1.5 lakh votes in Medak constituency over rival Congress candidate V Sunita Laxma Reddy at end of seventh round of counting for Lok Sabha bypoll.