Bypoll Results: TMC Loses Shockingly In West Bengal As Congress Gets 3, The BJP Wins 2, And An Ally Also Wins 2
The results of the assembly by-election on March 2 gave the Congress some consolation since it seized one seat from the BJP and the TMC in Maharashtra and West Bengal, respectively, and held onto a seat in Tamil Nadu with support from the DMK. In contrast, the BJP and its ally AJSU won one seat each in the western state of Jharkhand and in Tamil Nadu.
In Sagardighi, which was won by Bayron Biswas of the Congress by 22,986 ballots, the Trinamool Congress, which had been in power in West Bengal, was shockingly defeated. Congress only has one seat in the state legislature.
Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, claimed that the Congress and the CPI(M) had a deal with the BJP to work together immorally to beat the Trinamool Congress.
Additionally, Banerjee stated that her party will contest the 2024 elections on its own, with the backing of the common people, and that Congress should stop referring to itself as the anti-BJP party.
As state Congress head Adhir Chowdhury’s home district of Murshidabad, the by-election was required after state minister Subrata Saha passed away in December of the previous year. It was seen as a prestige contest for Chowdhury.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to hold onto the Chinchwad seat in Maharashtra’s Pune; however, it experienced a setback when it lost the Kasba Peth Assembly seat, which was a stronghold in the district, to the Congress’ Ravindra Dhangekar.
The seat was controlled by the BJP for 28 years. The Pune-based BJP’s current member of parliament, Girish Bapat, held the position five times before 2019.
According to results posted on the Election Commission’s website following the final round of voting, Dhangekar, who was backed by Maha Vikas Aghadi allies the Nationalist Congress Party, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), got 73,194 votes while Rasane received 62,244 votes.
Congress general secretary for communications Jairam Ramesh said the by-poll results were very promising despite the party’s poor showing in the assembly elections in Tripura, Nagaland, and Meghalaya.
After Maharashtra’s new government took office in June of last year, the Shiv Sena, which is currently in power under the leadership of the BJP and Eknath Shinde, squared off against the MVA in the byelections.
Senior figures like NCP President Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis campaigned for their respective candidates because the byelections had become a matter of prestige for the MVA and the state’s governing Shinde-BJP alliance.
With 1.12 lakh ballots, BJP candidate Ashwini Jagtap led NCP candidate Nana Kate, who received about 84,000 votes, in the Chinchwad seat. At 9:00 p.m., the electoral commission had not yet officially announced the outcome.
Due to the passing of current BJP MLAs Mukta Tilak (Kasba) and Laxman Jagtap (Chinchwad), a byelection was required.
The victory of EVKS Elangovan, supported by the governing DMK in the Erode East byelection, was hailed by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin as a public endorsement of the Dravidian model of governance of his 22-month-old administration.
From the 1.7 million ballots cast on February 27th, Elangovan received more than a lakh.
According to Stalin, the historic and grand success was laying the foundation for the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) to triumph even more in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Elangovan is the father of E Thirumahan Everaa, the Congress MLA whose death in January compelled the byelection, according to K Annamalai, the state head of the BJP, who also said he did not see it as a recommendation of the government’s performance.
The Election Commission reported that Sunita Choudhary of the AJSU Party defeated Congress nominee Bajrang Mahto of the UPA by a margin of 21,970 votes in Ramgarh, Jharkhand.
After all the ballots had been counted, the AJSU Party, which tied with the BJP for the by-election, had received 1,15,669 votes, while the Congress, a partner in the JMM-led alliance that controls the government, had received 93,699 votes.
Due to Congresswoman Mamta Devi’s removal following her conviction in a criminal case, a by-election was required.
Byelections for the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha seat and six Assembly seats located in five different states (Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu) were declared by the EC in January.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) member Mohammed Faizal’s disqualification as a result of his criminal sentence caused the Lakshadweep seat to become vacant.
But on January 30, the Kerala High Court suspended Faizal’s judgment and sentence, and the Election Commission postponed the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha byelection.
Due to conflicts with planned class 12 and graduation exams, the election panel revised the date of voting for two assembly seats in the Pune district of Maharashtra from February 27 to February 26 on January 25.
On February 10, BJP candidate Tsering Lhamu was named the winner of the Lumla seat in Arunachal Pradesh without a runoff.
The only candidate to submit a nomination for the by-election, which was required because Lhamu’s spouse, former MLA Jambey Tashi, passed away in November of last year, was Lhamu.
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