After Mamata Banerjee won Bhabanipur bypolls with 85,263 votes, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Priyanka Tibrewal claimed that she is the ”Man of the Match” as she secured more than 25,000 votes in the stronghold of West Bengal.
BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal on Sunday thanked the voters for their support and blessings and said that she will continue to work for them.
Mamata Banerjee defeated Priyanka Tibrewal by a record margin of over 58,000 votes after the end of 21 rounds of counting of votes that began early on Sunday.
After claiming victory from her home turf, Banerjee said, “It is a victory against the conspiracy which was hatched to defeat me from Nandigram. I thank the people of Bhabanipur for giving me such a huge mandate.”
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“This is my third victory from Bhabanipur. In 2011, I won the bypoll with a margin of over 54,000 votes. In the 2016 Assembly polls, I had won by a margin of over 26,000 votes. This time the margin has gone over 58,000 votes. So, I have broken my record,” the TMC chief said.
The voting in Bhabanipur on September 30 witnessed a modest turnout of 53.32 percent.
The by-poll was held in Bhabanipur along with the elections to two seats Samserganj and Jangipur in Murshidabad district where polling could not be held during the eight-phase assembly polls earlier this year.
As per the cumulative Election Commission figures, the TMC is also ahead in Murshidabad’s Samserganj and Jangipur constituencies, where votes are being counted for the assembly elections. In Samserganj, TMC candidate Amirul Islam is leading by 3,768 votes after the fifth round of counting. He secured 19,751 votes, while his nearest rival, Zaidur Rahaman of the Congress, got 15,983.
(With inputs from ANI)
