Dhupguri Bypoll Result 2023 Highlights: TMC Wins Seat By Over 4,000 Votes
Dhupguri Bypoll Result 2023 Highlights: The bypoll saw a three-way fight between TMC, BJP, and Congress-backed CPI(M).
Background
The Trinamool Congress wrested the Dhupguri Assembly seat from the BJP, with its candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy winning it by a margin of over 4,500 seats. By-election to the Dhupguri seat in Jalpaiguri district was held following the death of sitting BJP MLA Bishu Pada Ray earlier this year.
CPI (M)'s Ishwar Chandra Roy contesting as the candidate of the Congress-Left alliance, while the ruling Trinamool Congress has fielded Nirmal Chandra Roy, a professor at the Dhupguri Girls College.
The BJP has nominated Tapasi Roy, the widow of CRPF jawan Jagannath Roy who was martyred in a terror attack at Lawaypora in J&K on March 25, 2021.
In Dhupguri constituency, personnel of the central armed police forces and state police are guarding the strong room on the second campus of North Bengal University in Jalpaiguri, an official said.
The polling for the Dhupguri by-election was held on September 5, amid tight security arrangements. Around 76 per cent of 2.6 lakh eligible voters exercised their franchise in the byelection.
The bypoll to the seat was necessitated by the death of its sitting BJP MLA, Bishu Pada Ray, earlier this year. Roy had come to Kolkata to participate in the monsoon session of the Assembly. He was admitted to a city hospital after he complained of the chest pain. He died soon after being admitted to the hospital.
He was elected in 2021 after defeating the Trinamool Congress MLA Mitali Roy.
Dhupguri, a scheduled caste-reserved seat, has nearly 50 per cent Rajbanshi people and 15 per cent minority population. The BJP had snatched the constituency from the TMC in the 2021 assembly polls.
Polling for bypolls in six other assembly constituencies in five other states was held on the same date and counting will also be held on September 8.
The seven assembly constituencies are Dumri in Jharkhand, Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura, Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Puthuppally in Kerala and Dhupguri in West Bengal.
Dhupguri Bypoll Result 2023 LIVE: TMC Wins Seat By Over 4,000 Votes
The Trinamool Congress wrested the Dhupguri Assembly seat from the BJP, with its candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy winning it by a margin of over 4,000 seats.
Dhupguri Bypoll Result 2023 LIVE: TMC's Nirmal Chandra Roy Extends Lead, Ahead By Nearly 4,000 Votes
Round 6 of counting has ended and TMC has further extended its lead over BJP in Dhupguri bypoll and is ahead by over 3,500 votes. TMC candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy, a college professor, is leading with 62,602 votes. BJP's Tapasi Roy has received 58,829 votes, as per latest EC numbers. Ishwar Chandra Roy of CPI(M) is at the third spot with 8229 votes.
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