TMC registers massive victory in West Bengal bypolls

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has yet again established its political supremacy over rivals in West Bengal. The Mamata Banerjee’s party has retained the Ballygunge assembly constituency with a margin of 20,228 votes. Not only Ballygunge assembly seat, TMC has also registered a thumping victory in Asansol, a Lok Sabha seat that the party has never won.

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha emerged triumphant on Saturday and quashed the “outsider” tag accorded to him by the opposition BJP.

With winning the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency, by a margin of 3,03,209 votes, Shatrughan Sinha help the party break jinx as it has never tasted success on the seat since it was formed in the year 1998.

Sinha bagged 6,56,358 votes while BJP



candidate Agnimitra Paul managed to garner only 3,53,149 votes, according to Election Commission website.

CPI(M)’s Partha Mukherjee pocketed 90,412 votes and Prasenjit Puitandy of the Congress collected 15,035.

Paul, on the other hand, said she “humbly accepts people’s mandate”.

Bypoll to Asansol, held on April 12, was necessitated after Babul Supriyo resigned as the BJP MP and joined the TMC in September 2021.

TMC candidate Babul Supriyo won the bypolls for Ballygunge Assembly seat after securing 51,199 votes. "It is poetic justice that TMC won in Asansol. In Asansol, I won on my own credit. Today, people have destroyed the BJP's ego. The credit for the victory goes to Mamata Banerjee," said Supriyo.