TMC supporters observe aft the effect announcement of Sitai assembly constituency. (Express Photo by Pratha Paul)
In a wide motion that issues similar the rape-and-murder lawsuit astatine the R G Kar Hospital had small impact, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) connected Saturday swept the Assembly bypolls successful West Bengal, winning astir seats with an accrued borderline portion wresting the Madarihat spot from the BJP.
In Madarihat, a spot which the BJP had won by implicit 22,000 votes successful 2016 and 29,685 votes successful 2021, TMC’s Jayprakash Toppo defeated his nearest rival, Rahul Lohar of the BJP by 30,309 votes.
Sangita Roy, the TMC campaigner successful Sitai won by a borderline of 1,30,156 votes, an betterment from the conscionable implicit 10,000 ballot borderline successful 2021 portion Sanat Dey improved his borderline from 18, 855 successful 2021 to 48,912 successful Naihati.
On the different manus successful Haroa, Rabiul Islam of the TMC bushed his nearest rival Piyarul Islam of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) by implicit 1.13 lakh votes, improving connected his 2021 borderline of 80,978 votes. The BJP finished 2nd runner-up successful the seat.
However, the TMC margins are apt to spot a dip successful Taldangra wherever its candidate, Falguni Singhababu was starring by 3,300 votes portion the winning borderline successful 2021 was 12,377. Similarly successful Medinipur, TMC campaigner was starring by 5,000 votes portion the winning borderline successful 2021 was 24,397 votes.
TMC wide caput Abhishek Banerjee took to societal media to congratulate his enactment colleagues. “Congratulations to each six @AITCofficial candidates for their decisive victories successful the WB bye elections, defying the narratives created by the ZAMINDARS, the media and a conception of the Kol HC to defame Bengal for their ain vested interests. A peculiar acknowledgment to the radical of Madarihat for giving america the accidental to service you for the archetypal time. I bow earlier the radical of West Bengal for democratically dismantling the Bangla Birodhis, their fake narratives and reaffirming their spot successful us,” helium said successful a station connected X.
TMC MP Jagadish Chandra Basunia, whose Lok Sabha triumph necessitated the Sitai bypoll said helium had expected the triumph and the accrued margins. “It (the results) are a slap connected the look of those who politicised the R G Kar incident. The radical person shown religion successful Mamata Banerjee adjacent arsenic the BJP and Left tried to malign her,” helium said.
Conceding defeat, BJP authorities portion president Sukanta Majumder claimed that these results were expected successful bypolls. “But we are hopeful that we volition triumph the 2026 Assembly polls,” helium said.
Former authorities BJP president Dilip Ghosh said helium was expecting this result. “The TMC knows however to tally the voting machinery. However, I was hopeful of a combat successful Madarihat,” helium said.
Former BJP Madari MLA, whose predetermination to the Lok Sabha had necessitated the bypoll, called for the enactment to introspect. “On 1 broadside was the TMC, the constabulary and medication portion the BJP was connected the other. You indispensable person seen however our candidate’s vehicles were vandalised during the polls,” helium said.
Two – Madarihat and Sitai – of the six seats that went to the bypolls autumn successful North Bengal portion the different 4 are successful the south.