Uttarakhand bypolls: Congress wins Manglaur seat, retains Badrinath

Dehradun: The Congress on Saturday won both the assembly seats in Uttarakhand where bypolls were held, snatching the Manglaur constituency from the BSP and retaining Badrinath by defeating the BJP.

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Congress's Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin won the seat for the fourth time edging out BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana by a narrow margin of 422 votes. Nizamuddin won the seat twice on a BSP ticket and once on a Congress ticket in the past.

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The BSP, which had won the seat in the 2022 assembly polls, was relegated to the third position.

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