AAP retains 2 seats in Punjab, Gujarat

Congress-led UDF wrests Nilambur from Left front in Kerala

- Ekamjit Singh Brar

AAP's Gopal Italia on Monday won from Gujarat's Visavadar Assembly constituency and his party also retained Punjab's Ludhiana West seat while the Congress-led UDF wrested Nilambur from the ruling LDF in Kerala, according to results of Assembly bypolls in four states.

The ruling BJP in Gujarat retained the Kadi seat, while the Trinamool Congress maintained its hold on the Kaliganj Assembly seat in West Bengal's Nadia district. The bypolls in the five constituencies were held on June 19. Italia, the former president of the Gujarat unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), defeated his nearest rival, BJP candidate Kirit Patel, in Visavadar seat of Junagadh district by a margin of 17,554 votes, according to data shared by the Election Commission.