Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee congratulates INDIA bloc after TMC registers victory in Dhupguri Assembly bypoll
Sep 08, 2023
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 8 : After Trinamool Congress registered a win in the Assembly bypolls of Dhupguri, defeating BJP's candidate, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday congratulated the parties of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA).
"North Bengal is totally with us...in Dhupguri, it was a seat of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and we won the election. I congratulate all the people of Dhupguri. So wherever BJP lost and INDIA party won, I congratulate all of them", Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
In Dhupguri seat in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy defeated Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tapasi Roy by 4309 votes in a close contest. Nirmal Chandra Roy got 97,613 votes while the BJP candidate got 93,304 votes. The CPI-M also contested the seat and its candidate finished a distant third.
Earlier in the day, party supremo Mamata Banerjee took to X and said, "I thank the people of Dhupguri for reposing faith in us and voting decisively in our favour in the critical by-election to the Assembly constituency. People in North Bengal have been with us, and trust our strategy of growth, inclusiveness and empowerment. Bengal has shown its mandate, and soon INDIA too will show its preference. Jai Bangla! Jai INDIA!"
The TMC win in Dhupguri holds significance as it wrested the seat back from BJP.
The seat fell vacant after Bishnu Pada Ray who was the previous MLA from BJP died in July this year thereby necessitating the bye-elections.
The constituency is largely agricultural with many tea gardens, having a considerable population of Rajbanshi and Matua caste groups among its 2.6 lakh voters across 260 booths.
In the panchayat elections held in July this year, TMC won the majority in Dhupguri gram panchayat.
Samajwadi Party won the Ghosi seat in Uttar Pradesh with the parties opposed to BJP winning four of the seven assembly seats for which bypolls were held on September 5. BJP won three seats in the results declared on Friday.
The bypolls in six states were significant in terms of opposition parties forging INDIA bloc to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and also for atmospherics ahead of assembly polls in five states later this year. Leaders of INDIA bloc including Mamata Banerjee talked about their success in bypolls.
