New Delhi: Trinamool Congress has won the Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge assembly seats. These were the most keenly watched among the five by-polls for which votes were counted today. Lalu Yadav’s party has witnessed a victory in Bihar and Congress in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
Actor-Politician Shatrughan Sinha, the Trinamool Congress candidate from the seat of Asansol, with a huge margin, registering the party’s first-ever electoral victory in the constituency. Sinha defeated the BJP’s Agnimitra Paul, a designer-turned-MLA. The Asansol parliamentary seat after Babul Supriyo joined Trinamool Congress
In Ballygunge Assembly, TMC’s Babul Supriyo who switched from Bharatiya Janata Party, won the seat.
From West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to twitter to thank voters. She tweeted, “I sincerely thank the electors of the Asansol Parliamentary Constituency and the Ballygunge Assembly Constituency for giving decisive mandate to AITC party candidates.”
She added that the party considers this to be the people’s gift on the occasion of the Bengali New Year, which was celebrated yesterday.
Lalu Yadav’s RJD has won the bypolls from Bihar’s Bochahan Assembly segment with a margin of over 36,000 votes. The Congress is ahead in Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh and Maharashtra’s Kolhapur Assembly seats.
Due to the Death of the death of state minister Subrata Mukherjee, the Ballygunge Assembly seat bypoll was necessitated. The BJP has fielded Keya Ghosh while Saira Shah Halim is the CPI(M) candidate against Trinamool’s Babul Supriyo.
Speaking of Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh Assembly bypoll, the ruling Congress’ Yashoda Nilamber Verma is ahead with the margin of nearly 20,000 votes. This bypoll was too an important one due to the death of Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) MLA Devwrat Singh in November last year.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said, “On April 16, Congress candidate Yashoda Verma would become the MLA from Khairagarh and on April 17, a new district named Khairagarh-Chuikhadan-Gandai would become a reality.”
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