TMC candidate Babul Supriyo collects his certificate after winning in Ballygunge Assembly by-polls in West Bengal. (Photo: ANI)By-poll Results 2022 Live: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) Saturday won the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency for the first time since the party’s formation in 1998 and retained the Ballygunge Assembly constituency, making a clean sweep in West Bengal bypolls. In Asansol, former Union minister-turned-TMC candidate Shatrughan Sinha defeated BJP MLA-turned-party candidate Agnimitra Paul by a margin of 30,3209 votes. In Ballygunge, winning candidate Babul Supriyo secured 20,228 votes more than CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim who clinched the second position.
In Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won Bochahan Assembly seat — the lone constituency that went for bypolls in Bihar. RJD candidate Amar Kumar Paswan secured 48.52 per cent votes to emerge as the winner, with BJP candidate Baby Kumari in the second position. Congress candidate Jayshree Jadhav won the Kolhapur North Assembly bypoll in Maharashtra securing 54.25 per cent votes while Yashoda Nilamber Verma registered another win for the party bagging the Khairagarh Assembly seat in Chhattisgarh.
The counting of votes started had started at 8 am. Bengal’s Ballygunge, Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh, Bihar’s Bochahan, and Maharashtra’s Kolhapur North are the four assembly constituencies that went to polls. Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha seat where polling took place was West Bengal’s Asansol.
"We have created history by winning with a record margin. Its a victory of democracy, the people of Asansol, TMC workers and CM Mamata Banerjee," TMC leader Shatrughan Sinha said on his Asansol win.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) Saturday won the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency for the first time since the party’s formation in 1998 and retained the Ballygunge Assembly constituency, making a clean sweep in West Bengal bypolls.
In Asansol, former Union minister turned TMC candidate Shatrughan Sinha emerged victorious by a massive margin of 3,03,209 votes while BJP MLA turned party candidate Agnimitra Paul came second. Sinha bagged 6,56,358 votes while Paul got 3,53,149 votes. Read more
"We're happy as the people of Asansol have welcomed us with open hands. It feels like we are from Asansol only. It can only happen in India where people love each other," Shatrughan Sinha's wife Poonam Sinha said on her husband's victory in the Asansol Lok Sabha bypolls.
The parting of ways with Mukesh Sahani’s Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) has led to BJP’s defeat in the bypoll for the Bochahan (Muzaffarpur) assembly seat in Bihar. On the other hand, the split in NDA votes helped the RJD regain the seat after over 15 years. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Amar Kumar Paswan won the seat with a handsome margin of 36,653 votes. BJP’s Baby Kumari finished as the runner-up, whereas VIP nominee Geeta Kumari came third. The VIP, however, said that “its purpose of defeating the BJP was served.”
Notably, the VIP was ousted from the NDA recently after all its three MLAs crossed over to the BJP. VIP chief Sahani, an MLC, was later sacked from Nitish Kumar’s cabinet. Read full story here
Congress candidate Jayshree Jadhav won the Kolhapur North Assembly bypoll in Maharashtra securing 54.25 per cent votes while its Yashoda Nilamber Verma bagged in Khairagarh Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh.
TMC candidate Babul Supriyo collects his certificate after winning in Ballygunge Assembly by-polls in West Bengal.
The Trinamool Congress on Saturday won the Ballygunge Assembly seat in West Bengal by a margin 20,228 of votes. While the winning candidate Babul Supriyo secured 49.69 per cent of the total votes polled, CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim clinched the second position with 30.06 per cent votes. The party is currently leading Asansol Lok Sabha seat where Shatrughan Sinha was fielded as its heavyweight candidate.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Saturday won Bochahan Assembly seat — the lone constituency that went for bypolls in Bihar. RJD candidate Amar Kumar Paswan secured 48.52 per cent votes to emerge as the winner, with BJP candidate Baby Kumari in the second position. Congress candidate Jayshree Jadhav won the Kolhapur North Assembly bypoll in Maharashtra securing 54.25 per cent votes.
A united Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) proved too much for the BJP to handle as Congress candidate Jayshree Jadhav emerged victorious in the Kolhapur North Assembly bypoll in Maharashtra, the counting for which took place on Saturday, with a margin of over 19,000 votes.
Jayshree Jadhav, the widow of Congress MLA Chandrakant Jadhav whose death in December last year necessitated the bypoll, defeated Satyajit Kadam of the BJP in a contest in which both sides left no stone unturned to woo voters and where allegations and counter-allegations ruled the roost during the campaigning phase. Read more
"CPI(M) didn't have anything for people, they stooped low during campaign. Shatrughan Sinha won by a margin of over 1lakh votes & we'll work together with him. The results are a slap to BJP for their hubris & the way they demean Bengalis," TMC leader Babul Supriyo, who is leading in Ballygunj seat in Bengal bypolls, said.
"Babul Supriyo's victory in Ballygunge was predictable, Keya Ghosh has put up a big fight. We urge Police, administration, and the Election Commission to keep a check on violence in the state. Post poll violence should not take place in West Bengal," Agnimitra Paul added.
BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul said, "There were some shortcomings from our end because of which we had to face defeat. Public's verdict will be accepted. Few cases of rigging were seen at some places but central forces worked really well. We'll work at grassroots levels in the forthcoming days."
Congress candidate Jayshree Jadhav emerged victorious in the Kolhapur North Assembly bypoll, winning by a margin of over 19,000 votes.
Babul Supriyo, who is leading in the Ballygunge constituency bypoll, thanked party workers for helping him reach where is. “Mamata Banerjee guided us for working on the ground. The BJP's position shows the effect of fuel price hikes. Our party workers toiled in every corner,” he said.
After ten rounds of counting for the bypoll to Khairagarh Assembly seat in Chhattisgarh, the Congress candidate is ahead of the BJP by over 12,000 votes. The Janta Congress Chhattisgarh Jogi (JCC (J)) has been left further behind with independent candidates racing ahead of the party. Bypoll to Khairagarh — that falls in the Naxal-affected Rajnandgaon district — was necessitated after the death of sitting JCC(J) MLA Devvrat Singh, who belonged to the royal family in Khairagarh. The JCC (J) had given a ticket to his brother-in-law for the bypolls, hoping to gain votes from the sympathy for Singh. The Congress candidate Yashoda Verma and the BJP’s Komal Janghel are from the OBC community that is numerically strong in the region. In the 2018 Assembly elections, Janghel lost by a slim margin of 850 votes. (By Gargi Verma)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee thanked the people of Asansol and Ballygunge for choosing the candidates of her party. She wrote: “I sincerely thank the electors of the Asansol Parliamentary Constituency and the Ballygunge Assembly Constituency for giving decisive mandate to AITC party candidates. 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.”
Shatrughan Sinha, who is contesting the Asansol Lok Sabha bypoll on a Trinamool ticket, has increased his lead to over 1,35,000 votes. Moreover, TMC is also leading in all seven Assembly constituencies under Asansol.
The BJP is falling behind is all four assembly seats of Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Bihar, as well as the Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal.
With the fourth round of counting coming to an end in Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh constituency, the Congress candidate is leading with 4,082 votes while the BJP candidate is trailing with over 3,000 votes. The Janta Congress Chhattisgarh Jogi (JCCJ) is left further behind with its vote count in double digits. The bypoll was necessitated after the death of sitting MLA Devwrat Singh, who belonged to the royal family in Khairagarh which falls under the Rajnandgaon district. An erstwhile member of the Congress, he had contested the seat on a ticket from JCCJ. His party had named his brother-in-law for the bypolls in a hope to gain sympathy.
Meanwhile, both BJP and Congress had named their candidates from the OBC community. BJP candidate Komal Janghel had to face a loss by a margin of just 850 votes in the 2018 Vidhan Sabha election. (ENS)