Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sunetra Pawar won the Baramati Assembly bypoll by a record margin of over 2.18 lakh votes. Sunetra polled 2,18,969 votes, while no other candidate could secure even a thousand votes.

Assembly bypoll results: BJP wins four seats; Congress bags two, NCP’s Sunetra scripts new record in Baramati

By-elections are being held on Thursday across five assembly constituencies in four Indian states, Kerala, Punjab, Gujarat, and West Bengal.

Key bypolls across four states, counting on June 23

The Congress is likely to unseat the BJP from power in Rajasthan, two opinion polls have predicted in what could be a continuation of the state's tradition of over two decades of voting out the ruling party.

Opinion polls predict victory for Congress in Rajasthan Assembly polls 

Welcoming the announcement of polling dates for five states, the BJP expressed confidence Saturday that it will register a "record victory" in the elections and retain power in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

We will have a record victory in state polls: BJP

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the Modi government made false promises of turning black money into white and that farmers, Adivasis, Dalits and minorities are exploited under BJP.

Adivasis, Dalits, minorities are exploited under BJP: Rahul Gandhi in Morena 

Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the Left Front fighting it out in West Bengal's Maheshtala assembly constituency.

Live Assembly bypolls: Congress takes big lead in Karnataka's RR Nagar; TMC leads in West Bengal