TMC Wins All 3 Bypoll Seats; Vote Against Arrogance, Says Mamata

‘One, two, three, get rid of the BJP’, said the West Bengal chief minister.

It was a clean sweep for Trinamool Congress in the bypolls for three Assembly seats in West Bengal. The constituencies of Karimpur, Kharagpur Sadar and Kaliaganj voted on 25 November. The three seats saw a total 78 percent polling.

The Trinamool Congress’ Pradip Sarkar and Tapan Deb Singha won Kharagpur Sadar and Kaliyaganj respectively by 20,811 and 2,034 votes. The party’s Bimlendu Sinha Roy beat the BJP’s Vice President Jay Prakash Majumdar by 23,956 votes.