Bypolls

Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won two seats in the by-polls assembly elections on November 2, while the Congress party managed to secure one. Reportedly, BJP's Sulochana Rawat won by 6,104 votes against Congress' Mahesh Rawat Patel, from the Jobat constituency. Besides, Shishupal Yadav from BJP bagged another seat in Prithvipur against Congress' Nitendra Singh Rathore. In the Raigaon constituency, Congress' Kalpana Verma defeated BJP's Pratima… read-more

According to an Election Commission official, The Trinamool Congress was leading in all the four seats after the first round of counting. However, a tight three tier security has been imposed on a 100 metre radius of all the counting venues. BJP MLAs of Dinhata and Santipur reportedly resigned to retain the MP seats, where… read-more

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee won a thunderous victory in the by-poll from Bhawanipur in Kolkata on October 3. Winning this by-poll was crucial for her to continue as the Chief Minister following the defeat at Nandigram in the assembly elections. She won with a record margin of 58,832 votes over her BJP rival Priyanka Tribewal. State Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay vacated this seat for CM Banerjee.  

TMC supremo and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on September 22 claimed that if she doesn't win the Bhabanipur bypolls someone else from her party will become Chief Minister of West Bengal. In the first election meeting in Ekbalpore, Banerjee stated that she will suffer if she doesn't get votes as every vote is important. However, TMC defeated BJP in two Hindu-dominated wards.

Owing to the Nandigram loss, CM Mamta Banerjee and BJP MP Arjun Singh got involved in an ugly exchange of remarks. Banerjee after losing the Nandigram seat, said, "BJP has more evils than Duryodhan & Dushasan." "For the first time I have seen that even after being defeated earlier, she is again on the battlefield in the greed to win polls... positive news for the BJP," MP Singh replied.