Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on board, by winning the bypolls. She banged a stunning win from Bhabanipur today in the by-elections to retain her chair with the BJP’s Priyanka Tibrewal trailing behind. She won with the record of 58,832 votes.
BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal has conceded defeat and said that Mamata didn’t get the 1 lakh vote margin she had promised. Mamata Banerjee, who lost the assembly elections to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari after she challenged him in Nandigram, sought re-election from Bhabanipur to retain her chief ministership in Bengal. As Bhabanipur voted on Thursday, the Kolkata seat registered 57% voter turnout amid tension between the TMC and BJP camps.
Bhabanipur BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal has said that she is the man of the match. She said, “I am the ‘Man of the Match’ of this game because I contested the election in Mamata Banerjee’s stronghold and got more than 25,000 votes. I will continue doing the hard work.”
“I have won the Bhowanipore assembly bypolls with a margin of 58,832 votes and have registered the victory in every ward of the constituency, a jubilant chief minister announced in Kolkata.
She thanked people of the constituency, by saying, “Around 46% of people here are non Bengalis. They all have voted for me. People of West Bengal are watching Bhabanipur, which has inspired me.”
The Trinamool Congress chief also lashed out at the Centre for allegedly hatching conspiracies against her.
“Since the elections started in Bengal, the central government hatched conspiracies to remove us (from power). I was hurt in my feet so that I don’t contest the polls. I am grateful to the public for voting for us and to ECI for conducting polls within 6 months,” she said.
Mamata added that the people of Bhabanipur gave a befitting reply to the conspiracy that was hatched in Nandigram.
The TMC supremo had challenged the results of the Nandigram election, alleging that her BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari bribed the voters and engaged in corrupt malpractices.
The Trinamool Congress had registered a landslide victory in assembly polls winning 213 of 294 seats in the West Bengal assembly. The BJP won 77 seats.
After Banerjee’s defeat in Nandigram, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, a state minister, vacated the Bhabanipur seat to facilitate her return to the assembly from there.
Bhabanipur is considered the home turf of Mamata. She had registered a massive victory from the constituency in 2011 as well
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