<p> The BJP was ahead of the Congress in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll, with its candidate Parwati Das leading by 1,542 votes as counting progressed on Thursday.</p>.<p>At the end of the seventh round of counting, Das had polled 18,299 votes while the Congress' Basant Kumar had garnered 16,757 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said.</p>.India Political Highlights: 'What is the need to separate ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’?', asks Cong's Digvijaya Singh.<p>The BJP moved ahead of the Congress in the third round and has maintained the lead consistently so far.</p>.<p>The seat was held since 2007 by the BJP's Chandan Ram Das whose death in April this year necessitated a bypoll to the seat.</p>
<p> The BJP was ahead of the Congress in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll, with its candidate Parwati Das leading by 1,542 votes as counting progressed on Thursday.</p>.<p>At the end of the seventh round of counting, Das had polled 18,299 votes while the Congress' Basant Kumar had garnered 16,757 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said.</p>.India Political Highlights: 'What is the need to separate ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’?', asks Cong's Digvijaya Singh.<p>The BJP moved ahead of the Congress in the third round and has maintained the lead consistently so far.</p>.<p>The seat was held since 2007 by the BJP's Chandan Ram Das whose death in April this year necessitated a bypoll to the seat.</p>