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Bengal Bypolls
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Cracker free Diwali in true sense: Abhishek Banerjee's dig at BJP after TMC sweeps bypolls

| @indiablooms | Nov 02, 2021, at 09:45 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress national general secretary and MP, Abhishek Banerjee, has taken a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after his party swept the four byelections held in the state last Saturday.

Banerjee tweeted, "A cracker free Diwali in true sense. Wishing folks at @BJP4India a very Happy Diwali!"

In another setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) won in all four seats including Dinhata and Santipur, which were earlier won by the saffron brigade.

In a record margin, TMC candidate Udayan Guha won from Dinhata by over 1,64,089  lakh votes.

In Santipur, TMC's Braja Kishor Goswami won by a margin of 63,892 votes.

In Khardah seat, which fell vacant after the demise of TMC's winning candidate Kajal Sinha, West Bengal Minister Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay retained the party's seat winning by 93,832 votes.

TMC's Subrata Mondal won from Gosaba by a huge margin of 1,43,051 votes.

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