Trinamool Congress won the Asansol Lok Sabha seat for the first time in its history, where its candidate film star Shatrughan Sinha defeated BJP’s Agnimitra Paul by a record margin of 300,383 votes.
The seat fell vacant after BJP MP Babul Supriyo resigned from the party and joined the Trinamool Congress.
Supriyo contested from Ballygunge assembly seat on Trinamool ticket and defeated CPI(M) candidate Saira Shah Haleem by 20,228 votes. BJP’s Kiya Ghosh came third.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, “We have won the Asansol seat for the first time since the inception of our party. We have won with a record vote. I thank the people of Asansol for voting for us.” “I would urge the people of Bengal and my political allies to maintain peace and harmony. Despite the BJP’s conspiracy, people are trusting us.”
In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP won the Asansol seat. Earlier the CPI(M) used to win there.
In Maharashtra, the Congress retained its Kolhapur North seat despite the BJP’s strong Hindutva campaign in the constituency. The bypoll was necessitated in December 2021 following the untimely death of Congress MLA Chandrakant Jadhav due to Covid-19. The Congress has fielded his wife Jayshree Jadhav as the candidate of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance. He defeated Satyajit Kadam of BJP by a margin of 18,800 votes.
In Chhattisgarh, Congress won the Khairagarh seat by defeating two-time MLA and BJP candidate Komal Jangel by 20,176 votes. In 2018, this seat was won by Devvrat Singh of Janata Congress Chhattisgarh from Ajit Jogi.
The ruling NDA alliance in Bihar lost the Bochahan seat to the RJD. The seat felt vacant after the death of sitting MLA Musafir Paswan, who represented the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), which was then a part of the ruling coalition. BJP has fielded its own candidate Baby Kumari this time while ousting VIPs from NDA. RJD has fielded Amar Paswan, the son of Musafir Paswan. Paswan had won this seat by 36,653 votes.
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