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The Congress Friday won the Neyattinkara by-election in Kerala.
Congress' R. Selvaraj who was trailing in third position as counting began in the morning stole a march over his rivals in the the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Selvaraj, a former CPI-M legislator, had resigned from the party to join the Congress.
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