KOLKATA/ KOLHAPUR: The Trinamool Congress made a clean sweep on Saturday winning both the Asansol Lok Sabha and the Ballygunge assembly seats in West Bengal while the Congress bagged a constituency each in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh and the RJD one in Bihar in the bypolls to these seats with the BJP drawing a blank.
All the winners in the assembly bypolls were from the respective ruling parties.
In West Bengal, all eyes were on new TMC recruits and former BJP members — movie actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo.
Sinha drubbed BJP’s Agnimitra Paul by 3,03,209 votes in Asansol. The BJP had won the seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by 1.97 lakh votes when Supriyo who was then in the BJP beat TMC’s Moon Moon Sen.
Supriyo, who was nominated by the TMC from the prestigious Ballygunge assembly constituency, defeated CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim by a margin of 20,228 votes. BJP’s Keya Ghosh managed to bag just 13,220 votes.
The bypoll, which took place on April 12, was necessitated as state minister Subrata Mukherjee, who represented Ballygunge, died last year.
More than the Ballygunge assembly seat, the real frustration for the BJP has come from the results in the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency, from where the BJP candidate had won twice — in 2014 and 2019.
This time, Sinha won by a massive margin and created two records on behalf of his party.
This story is from the April 17, 2022 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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