NEW DELHI: The Congress was on Sunday poised to form the next government in Goa, ending the three-month-old political crisis. It won three of the five Assembly seats, byelections for which were held on June 2. Its ally, the Nationalist Congress Party, bagged one seat, while one seat was retained by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The tally of the Congress combine has now gone up to 21 in an Assembly of 40 MLAs. The Congress Legislature Party is scheduled to meet on Monday to elect its leader, after which the party is expected to stake its claim before the Governor.

The lone Lok Sabha byelection in Shimoga, Karnataka, was once again won by the former Chief Minister, S. Bangarappa, who contested on the Samajwadi Party ticket.

He has proven once again that he can win the constituency irrespective of the party tag. The Chamarajpet Assembly seat was won by the Janata Dal (Secular) candidate, Jamir Ahmed Khan. The JD(S) is a coalition partner in the Karnataka Government.

Huge margin in Haryana

In Haryana, the Congress won all the three Assembly seats with a margin of over 1,00,000 votes. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda defeated the Indian National Lok Dal candidate in Kiloi to enter the Assembly, while Kiran Choudhary and Savitri Jindal won the Tusham and Hissar seats.

Their husbands, Surinder Singh and O.P. Jindal,both ministers in the Hooda Government, were killed in a helicopter crash.

In Uttar Pradesh, the SP and its ally, the Rashtriya Lok Dal, made a clean sweep of all the four Assembly by-elections, wresting one seat each from the Bahujan Samaj Party (Allahabad-West) and the BJP (KheragarhIn the Allahabad-West seat, SP candidate Mohammad Ashraf Ahmed won although he was in jail. He defeated Puja Paul, widow of the slain BSP MLA whose murder he is accused of.

It was a one-way affair in Kerala too, where the Koothuparamba and Azhikode Assembly seats were comfortably retained by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

In Andhra Pradesh, the Telugu Desam Party retained the Penukonda Assembly segment.

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