3 ministers in Yogi government are now MPs

Three of the newly elected MPs —

Rita Bahuguna Joshi

, Satyadev Pachauri and S P Singh Baghel — are currently ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government.

Seven seats in the Bihar legislature, including two MLC posts, will fall vacant as the legislators have won the LS polls. The five assembly constituencies where bypolls will be necessitated are Simri Bakhtiarpur, Daraundha, Belhar, Nathnagar and

Kishanganj

.

Three ministers in the

Nitish Kumar government

— Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Dinesh Chandra Yadav (both JD-U) and Pashupati Kumar Paras (LJP) — are among the legislators who won the LS polls. Besides, three other JD(U) MLAs and one Congress MLA have also won the LS polls.

In Odisha, four BJD RS members — Achyuta Samanta, Anubhav Mohanty, P K Deb and S R Patnaik — have won the LS polls. This would require bypolls for the seats they vacate in RS.

In Kerala and Gujarat, bypolls will be required in four assembly seats each. In Maharashtra, three legislators from BJP, two from Shiv Sena and one from MIM have won the Lok Sabha seats they contested from.

Three MLAs each from Assam and Bengal won the LS polls, necessitating byelections. Similarly, bypolls will be required in two assembly seats each in Rajasthan (BJP 1, RLP 1), Himachal (BJP 2) and Punjab (BJP 1, SAD 1) as the legislators have entered LS. SAD chief and former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal is among them.

Bypolls will also be required in one seat each in MP (BJP), Chhattisgarh (Congress), Telangana (Congress) and TN (Congress).