Congress, Trinamool register wins in bypolls; RJD wrests seat in Bihar
The Hindu
BJP draws blank in battle for one Lok Sabha, four Assembly seats
The ruling parties/alliances in West Bengal, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh on Saturday won bypolls to one Lok Sabha and three Assembly seats while Bihar witnessed the principal Opposition party winning the lone Assembly seat up for grabs.
While the Trinamool Congress (TMC) made a clean sweep in West Bengal, wresting a Lok Sabha seat from the BJP and retaining its Assembly seat, the Congress won one Assembly seat each in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
In Bihar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) wrested the Bochahan Assembly seat from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The Bharatiya Janata Party drew a blank in the first set of bypolls held after the resumption of regular hikes in petrol, diesel and gas prices.
In West Bengal, actor–turned politician Shatrughan Sinha defeated BJP’s Agnimitra Paul by 3,03,209 votes in the Asansol Lok Sabha seat. The seat had fallen vacant after Union Minister Babul Supriyo quit the BJP to join the Trinamool and resigned from his seat in September 2021. In 2019, he had won the seat by 1.97 lakh votes on a BJP ticket defeating TMC’s Moon Moon Sen.
Mr. Supriyo, who was nominated from the prestigious Ballygunge Assembly constituency, defeated CPI(M)‘s Saira Shah Halim by a margin of 20,228 votes, with BJP’s Keya Ghosh managing to secure just 13,220 votes. The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of State Minister Subrata Mukherjee last year.
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