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By-polls sweep boost to Narendra Modi, blow to Nitish Kumar

In a major boost to Narendra Modi in the party's prime ministerial race, the BJP today swept the six Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Gujarat by-polls while his detractor Nitish Kumar suffered a blow in Bihar and Congress drew a blank in four states.

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Wresting all the six seats from Congress in Gujarat, the BJP won the Lok Sabha byelections in Porbandar and Banaskantha with a margin of over 1.28 lakh and 71,000 votes respectively and bagged the Assembly seats of Limbadi, Morva Hadaf, Jetpur and Doraji by handsome margins.u00a0

Interestingly, the BJP candidate Vithhal Radadia, who defected from Congress after a controversy last year when he brandished a gun at a toll booth, won the Porbandar Lok Sabha seat.

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