The by-elections to at least one Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal’s Asansol and 4 Assembly seats — Ballygunge in Bengal, Bochahan in Bihar, Khairagarh in Chhattisgarh and Kolhapur North in Maharashtra — got here a disappointment to the BJP.
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress clear swept the Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge Assembly bypolls. While actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha defeated his closest rival — BJP’s Agnimitra Paul — by a document margin of over 3 lakh votes in Asansol, his celebration colleague babul Supriyo defeated BJP’s child Kumari by a margin of 36,653 votes.
In Asansol, the by-elections have been necessitated as Babul Supriyo resigned because the MP of Asansol after switching over to the TMC from the BJP, whereas state minister Subrata Mukherjee, who represented Ballygunge, died final 12 months.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee thanked voters from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat and Ballygunge Assembly Constituency for giving a decisive mandate to TMC candidates in each the seats, the place by-polls have been held.
“I sincerely thank the electors of the Asansol Parliamentary Constituency and the Ballygunge Assembly Constituency for giving decisive mandate to AITC party candidates,” she tweeted. “We consider this to be our people’s warm Shubho Nababarsho gift to our Ma- Mati- Manush organization. Salute to the voters for reposing faith in us, yet again,” she added.
In Bihar, the opposition RJD wrested the Bochahan meeting seat from the ruling NDA, with its candidate defeating the BJP nominee by a big margin of over 35,000 votes.
RJD candidate Amar Paswan, whose father Musafir Paswan’s dying had necessitated the by-election, polled 82,116 votes whereas his nearest BJP rival Baby Kumari received solely 45,353. Expelled state minister Mukesh Sahani’s Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), on the ticket of which Musafir Paswan had gained the seat in 2020, completed a distant third with 29,671 votes.
Sahani, who initially wished to area the deceased MLA’s son Amar, not too long ago misplaced his ministerial berth, and subsequently the belief of his potential candidate. Amar jumped ship and is now within the fray because the candidate of the RJD, which his father had defeated to win the seat.
In a lift to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) mix in Maharashtra, the Congress on Saturday gained the bypoll to the Kolhapur North Assembly constituency, retaining the seat by defeating the BJP by a margin of over 18,000 votes.
Congress-MVA candidate Jayashri Jadhav bagged 96,176 votes, whereas BJP’s Satyajeet Kadam polled 77,426 votes. Jadhav emerged victorious by a margin of 18,750 votes, election officers stated.
In Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh Assembly seat too, Congress candidate Yashoda Verma was on her approach to a cushty victory as she maintained a lead of over 20,000 votes in opposition to her closest rival — BJP’s Komal Janghel. The bypoll right here was necessitated after Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) MLA and former MP Devvrat Singh died in November final 12 months.
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