The results of three assembly by-elections in three states will be declared on Monday, with the spotlight on Bihar’s Bankipur and Madhya Pradesh’s Datia. The results of by-elections to three Assembly seats in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat will be declared on Monday, with the spotlight on Bankipur and Datia. (Agencies) The third seat is Gujarat’s Manjalpur. Voting for all three bypolls was held on July 30. Both Bankipur and Datia have emerged as prestige battles for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as both are considered traditional saffron party strongholds. Bankipur was previously represented by BJP national president Nitin Nabin, while Datia is the political bastion of former Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra. Datia assembly bypoll Mishra did not get a ticket for the by-election for the seat he lost in the 2023 assembly polls to Congress candidate Rajendra Bharti. The bypoll was necessitated after a Delhi court in April this year sentenced Bharti to three years’ imprisonment in a cheating case, leading to the termination of his assembly membership. Violence erupted in the …