Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress sweeps Bengal bypolls, BJP fails to open account
Nov 23, 2024, 04:21 PM ISTTMC sweeps all six West Bengal by-elections, including the crucial Madarihat seat, marking a major political victory over the BJP.
TMC sweeps all six West Bengal by-elections, including the crucial Madarihat seat, marking a major political victory over the BJP.
TMC candidates are leading by substantial margins in all six West Bengal bypoll constituencies, reinforcing the party's dominance ahead of the 2024 assembly elections.
West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee stated that the swearing-in ceremony for the four new TMC MLAs, post by-polls, should be held within the assembly premises, as per legislative conventions.
Bypolls to seven assembly seats across Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Kerala, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Uttarakhand will witness bypolls on September 5.
The heavy police force has been deployed at every polling booth, polling is being conducted with tight security. Naka checking is also going on and patrolling is also being done in the river by boat.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress chief and said BJP is a 'jumla' party.
Targeting the chief minister over post-poll violence, Priyanka Tibrewal said that the people of the state have the right to live but this right is being taken away by Mamata Banerjee and her party.
BJP has fielded Priyanka Tibrewal, a lawyer by profession as its candidate in the upcoming Bhabanipur bypolls pitting her against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on September 30.
The Congress will neither field any candidate opposite Banerjee nor campaign against her in the run up to the September 30 bypoll, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC registered a landslide victory in polls winning 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal assembly.
Even as there was stunned bewilderment among those present, the former railway minister quickly corrected himself and said "the Trinamool Congress will undoubtedly win the by-elections. BJP will be trounced."
Tapan Deb Sinha of the TMC won the Kaliaganj seat by defeating his nearest rival Kamal Chandra Sarkar of the BJP by 2,304 votes, EC officials said. The TMC is also leading in two other assembly segments, Kharagpur Sadar and Karimpur, by 15,000 and 28,000 votes respectively.
"The average voting percentage was 75.48 per cent. The turnout was 77.17 per cent in Kaliaganj, 67.62 in Kharagpur Sadar and 81.23 in Karimpur," the EC said.
It will be the first electoral contest between the two parties since this year's Lok Sabha polls, which saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging as the main opposition in the state, with 18 of the 42 seats in its kitty, just four less than that of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
The counting was taken up on Thursday of votes cast on January 29 during the bypolls for both the seats.
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Around 245,259 voters will exercise their franchise at the bypoll which is being considered as a litmus test for Mukul Roy who recently left Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress to join BJP.
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