Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, won the bypoll for the Bhabanipur seat by 58,832 votes on Sunday. “It is a triumph over the plan that was devised to defeat me from Nandigram,” Banerjee remarked after claiming victory on her home turf. I am grateful to the people of Bhabanipur for entrusting me with such a large mandate.”
Meanwhile, BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal has blamed their defeat on “false voters.” “The outcome would have been different if people had been permitted to vote. On election day, I, too, was able to get a list of phoney voters.
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Polls were manipulated in numerous booths. But I’ll confess that our organisation at Bhabanipur was lacking. After her loss to Bhabanipur, Tibrewal remarked, “We have to fix this.” The Trinamool Congress is also leading in the Murshidabad district’s other two seats.
Bye-elections in the Jangipur and Samserganj assembly seats in the state’s Murshidabad district, as well as the Pipili constituency in Odisha, are also being counted. At the counting centres, 24 central forces companies have been stationed, and the whole region will be under CCTV observation.
Babanipur had a low voter turnout of 53.32 percent when it went to the polls on September 30. However, turnout was greater in the state’s other two Assembly seats. According to Election Commission figures, Samserganj had 78.60 percent voter participation while Jangipur had 76.12 percent as of 5 p.m.
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In May, West Bengal Agriculture Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay abandoned the Bhabanipur assembly seat, allowing Mamata Banerjee to run in the bypoll. Priyanka Tibrewal, a lawyer, has been nominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to run against the TMC head.
Srijib Biswas, a lawyer, has been nominated by the CPI(M). The seat was not challenged by Congress. The Trinamool Congress won a resounding victory in the West Bengal assembly elections, capturing 213 of the 294 seats.
