Mamata Banerjee wins assembly bypoll
West Bengal chief minister won her maiden assembly election from Bhawanipore assembly constituency in a bypoll held on Sunday.
WEST BENGAL chief minister and the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee won the Bhawanipore bypoll on Wednesday after defeating her CPI(M) opponent by 54213 votes. In another bypoll at the Basirhat (Uttar) seat, Trinamool Congress snatched the seat from the Left Front. Public works department minister in Mamata Banerjee's cabinet, Subrata Bakshi, had vacated the Bhawanipore assembly seat for the chief minister. In the assembly election earlier this year, Bakshi had won by a margin of 49,963 votes over CPI-M candidate Narayan Jain.
In another assembly by-election in Basirhat (Uttar) constituency of North 24 Parganas district, Trinamool's ATM Abdulla defeated CPI(M)'s Subid Ali Gazi by a margin of over 30900 votes. Basirhat (Uttar) constituency was vacated due to the CPI(M) legislator Mostafa Bin Quasem allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the balcony of his room in the 'MLAs' Hostel'.
Voting for both the constituencies, Bhawanipore and Basirhat (Uttar) was held on Sunday September 25, where 49.32 percent voters exercised their right to vote in Bhawanipore and in Basirhat (Uttar) 80 percent polling was recorded. In May 2011 in Bengal election, Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress defeated Left Front government, which was in power since 1977. Trinamool Congress secured 226 seats whereas Left Front won 62 assembly seats.
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