Kolkata, Jul 13 (PTI) Trinamool Congress candidates were ahead of their rivals in by-polls held in four assembly seats in West Bengal, where counting began on Saturday morning, according to the Election Commission of India website.
The by-polls for Maniktala, Bagda, Ranaghat Dakshin and Raiganj assembly seats were held on July 10.
TMC’s nominee Supti Pandey was leading by 28,781 votes in Maniktala in Kolkata over her nearest rival Kalyan Chaubey of the BJP, while in Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur district, Trinamool Congress candidate Krishna Kalyani was ahead of Manas Kumar Ghosh of the saffron party by 50,023 votes.
TMC’s Madhuparna Thakur was leading by 20,884 votes over her rival Binay Kumar Biswas of the BJP in the Bagda assembly seat in North 24 Parganas district.
Mukut Mani Adhikari of TMC was ahead of BJP nominee Manoj Kumar Biswas by 30,081 in Ranaghat Dakshin seat in North 24 Parganas district.
The BJP secured Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda, and Raiganj segments in the 2021 assembly polls.
The Maniktala seat was bagged by the TMC in 2021 but became vacant after former state minister Sadhan Pandey died in February 2022.
Despite the BJP winning the other three seats in 2021, the MLAs later switched to the TMC.
The by-polls were necessitated as Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj, Biswajit Das from Bagda and Mukut Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat Dakshin gave up their seats to contest the Lok Sabha elections. PTI PNT SCH BDC RG
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