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In a major setback the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost the assembly bypolls with the INDIA bloc winning 10 seats out of the total 13. The saffron regiment could only secure two seats. The results brought a lot of comfort to Congress, which won two of three seats in Himachal Pradesh and two seats in Uttarakhand. Congress winning two seats in Himachal Pradesh has increased the comfort factor for the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu government which now has 40 MLAs against 28 of BJP.

As the INDIA bloc secured a massive victory, Ram Gopal Yadav, a senior MP from the Samajwadi Party said that the 'bubble of BJP's lies has popped'. "It seems as if BJP's bubble of lies has popped... People understood their tactics... People defeated the BJP from every religious place including the Lok Sabha elections. In every place associated with Lord Ram, right from Ayodhya, Sitapur, Chitrakoot, Nasik, and Rameshawaram, the BJP has been defeated. Even Lord Ram has rejected BJP," Yadav said.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit called the results a clear sign of the declining graph of BJP. "Right after the Lok Sabha elections, we have won 12-13 seats in 4-5 states, which clearly indicates that the BJP's graph has been falling. Had the Lok Sabha elections been organised after 6-8 months, BJP would not have won more than 120 seats," he said.

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"For the first time, NDA parties are performing better than BJP in their respective states and BJP is absolutely relying on them... BJP has a multiple organ failure and is failing in multiple states. It is soon headed to an ICU," he added.

RJD MP Manoj Jha also hailed the victory and said, "The two seats where BJP has won, in one of them the margin is of 1000 votes and in the other also the margin is almost the same, and that person was in Congress until recently."

"I just hope from now on the governance is of inclusiveness and talks are held on issues of public interest. The biggest issue is unemployment, they (BJP) never talk about that," he added.

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram said that the "wind is behind the sails of the INDIA bloc". "The by-elections show that the mood of the people is against the BJP. But where the structure of the Congress party is weak, I'm afraid that the 'mood' alone would not help. We have to work in states where the structure of the party is weak," he said.

"But by and large, the wind is behind the sails of the INDIA bloc," he added.

(With inputs from agency)