Bypoll results: BJP snatches 2 SP seats in UP, AAP's shock loss in Punjab

Akhilesh Yadav, rankled by the defeat, lashed out at the BJP and accused it of murdering democracy

The BJP wrested high-profile Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh from the Samajwadi Party and won three assembly seats, including that of Chief Minister Manik Saha, in Tripura in by-election results announced on Sunday.

While the AAP lost Punjab’s Sangrur parliamentary constituency, vacated by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, to Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), it was able to retain Rajinder Nagar assembly seat in Delhi that party leader Raghav Chadha had given up after he was elected to Rajya Sabha.

In Uttar Pradesh, the opposition Samajwadi Party suffered a major setback as it lost to the BJP in