Bypolls in 3 Lok Sabha, 33 assembly seats on Saturday; acid test for PM Narendra Modi

New Delhi: Three Lok Sabha and 33 Assembly seats are going to bypolls on Saturday with the results crucial for both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance and the opposition parties who are yet to recover from the massive mauling in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The resignations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Vadodara, Mulayam Singh Yadav from Mainpuri and K Chandrashekhararao from Medak Lok Sabha seats have necessitated the bypolls.

Besides, these three high profile Lok Sabha seats, 33 assembly seats are also going to bypolls across Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam, Gujarat, Tripura, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Sikkim.

In the highly polarised UP, 11 assembly seats are going to bypolls. Out of 11 seats, 10 seats were held by the BJP, which literally swept the Lok Sabha polls. In Rajasthan, four assembly seats are going to polls.

In Modi's home state of Gujarat 9 assembly seats are going to bypolls with Vadodara Lok Sabha seats. In Assam, three seats are going to bypolls. In West Bengal two seats are going to bypolls. In Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Tripura and Sikkim, one seat is each is going to bypolls.

The votes will be counted on September 16.

These bypolls are being dubbed as an acid test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP has not fared very well in the bypolls held in the last few weeks after the party's huge success in the Lok Sabha elections.

BJP candidates lost all the three bypolls in Uttarakhand and then could bag only four out of the 10 seats in Bihar while losing one crucial seat each to Congress in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.

If the BJP loses some of the seats where voting will take place on September 13, it will be seen as yet another sign of the waning Modi wave.

Three Lok Sabha seats:

Vadodara - Gujarat

Mainpuri - UP

Medak - Telangana

Assembly Seats - UP - 11:

Saharanpur Nagar

Bijnor

Thakurdwara

Noida

Nighasan

Lucknow East

Hamirpur

Charkari

Sirathu

Balha

Rohaniya

Rajasthan - 4

Surajgarh

Weir

Nasirabad

Kota South

Gujarat - 9

Deesa

Maninagar

Tankara

Khambalia

Mangrol

Talaja

Anand

Matar

Limkheda

West Bengal - 2

Basirath Dakshin

Chowrangee

Andhra Pradesh - 1

Nandigama

Sikkim - 1

Rangang - Yangang

Chhattisgarh - 1

Antagarh

TRIPURA - 1

Manu