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KOCHI: The LDF backed independent candidate has won the Vyttila Janatha bypoll defeating the UDF candidate by 58 votes. The LDF candidate Baiju Yesudas alias Baiju Thottali got 1,686 votes against the Congress candidate Shelbi Antony's 1,628. Now, if Yesudas is included in the finance standing committee, then both fronts will have five members each in the committee. The ruling front could do nothing in the past three years," said K J Antony, opposition leader of Kochi Corporation. The LDF has already a clear majority in the health standing committee which was headed by UDF's V K Minimol..