West Bengal Bypoll Results Highlights: Big Win For TMC With A Clean Sweep On All 4 Seats In Fray
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Bypolls to four assembly constituencies in West Bengal were held on July 10. According to Election Commission, a voter turnout of 62.71 per cent was recorded till 5 pm on Wednesday. The counting of votes will be done on Saturday, following which the results will be declared.
Out of the four constituencies, Raiganj witnessed the highest turnout at 67.12 per cent. This was followed by Ranaghat Dakshin, which witnessed 65.37 per cent voting. Two other constituencies, Bagdah and Maniktala recorded at 65.15 per cent and 51.39 per cent voter turnout, respectively.
The need for bypolls at Raiganj was necessitated as Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj, Biswajit Das from Bagdah and Mukut Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat Dakshin gave up their seats to contest the Lok Sabha elections. Despite BJP winning these seats in 2021, the MLAs later switched to the TMC.
Bypoll in Maniktala were held after the death of state minister Sadhan Pandey in February 2022. Altogether there are around 10 lakh electorates in the four assembly segments.
Amidst the polling, a few sporadic incidents of violence were reported from Maniktala, Bagdah, and Ranaghat Dakshin, The BJP accused TMC activists of assaulting its booth agents and preventing its candidates from visiting polling stations.
BJP candidates Binay Kumar Biswas and Manoj Kumar Biswas from Badgah and Ranaghat Dakshin respectively had claimed that they were not allowed to visit some booths.
BJP's candidate from Maniktala Kalyan Chaubey also faced protests. He was allegedly greeted with go back slogans by TMC activists when he tried to enter a booth in the constituency. TMC, however, denied these allegations and called them "baseless".
Besides this, the BJP also filed a complaint with the Election Commission, alleging irregularities in the three constituencies including
While Ranaghat Dakshin, Maniktala in Kolkata, and Bagdah in North 24 Parganas are situated in Bengal's southern part, Raiganj, is situated in north Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district.
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#WATCH | Darjeeling, West Bengal: On the bypolls in the state, BJP leader Shankar Ghosh says, "We are waiting for the final result. We will wait and thereafter we will scrutinize all the booth results. Then we can say what is the drawback from our side. But as you know, from day… pic.twitter.com/0Wm7NtgZZD
— ANI (@ANI) July 13, 2024
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