The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has won by-polls in all four assembly seats in West Bengal.
Trinamool Congress candidates won Dinhata, Santipur, Khardaha and Gosaba assembly with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trailing on the second position on all four seats. TMC’s Udayan Guha won by the margin of 1,64,089 votes over BJP’s Ashok Mandal in Dinhata constituency.
In Santipur seat, TMC’s Braja Kishor Goswami won by a margin of 64,675 votes over BJP’s Niranjan Biswas.
TMC’s Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay emerged victorious on the Kharadaha seat with a margin of 93,832 votes over BJP candidate Joy Saha.
TMC’s Subrata Mondal won the Gosaba assembly seat by a margin of 1,43,051 seats over BJP’s Palash Rana.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated the party candidates and said it was victory of people.
Mamata tweeted, congratulating the four candidates. “It’s a people’s victory,” she wrote. “This victory shows how the people of Bengal have chosen development and unity, ignoring the politics of conspiracy and hatred.”
Mamata also promised to take Bengal to a new height of development.
On the other hand, Trinamool All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee sneered at the opposition and tweeted Diwali greetings to the BJP. He wrote, “True Diwali without bets.”
At the same time, he gave a message to the workers not to march for victory through the media. He told the workers to maintain peace in all areas and that the victory procession should not be held, or any unpleasant situation should not be created.
According to party secretary general Parth Chatterjee, the days of BJP are over. “It’s time for the BJP to go,” he said.
Parth Chatterjee thinks that people have faith in the promise that Mamata Banerjee has made to unite India. On the one hand, when the Trinamool wants to establish the existence of the party at the all-India level, he thinks that this victory will provide more impetus.
The Santipur and Dinhata seats fell vacant after BJP MPs Jagannath Sarkar and Nishith Pramanik resigned from the assembly respectively. The other two seats fell vacant as Trinamool Congress MLAs Kajal Sinha (Khardaha) and Jayanta Naskar (Gosaba) died due to COVID-19.
The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC had registered a landslide victory in the assembly polls, winning 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal assembly. The BJP had emerged as the second-largest party with 77 seats.
WITH INPUTS FROM ANI…