by Gujarat assembly bypoll results: Popularity of Congress turncoats to be tested
The public acceptance of the former Congress MLAs who quit the party earlier this year and joined the BJP, will be gauged on Tuesday, as counting of votes will be taken up for the eight assembly seats where byelections were held earlier this month. The bypolls were necessitated because of the eight Congress MLAs resigned ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls, which helped the BJP get its three nominees elected to the upper house of Parliament. Byelections were held at Abdasa (Kutch), Limbdi (Surendranagar), Morbi (Morbi district), Dhari (Amreli), Gadhada (Botad), Karjan (Vadodara), Dang (Dang district) and Kaprada (Valsad) assembly seats on November 3.
