Bengal
Mamata Banerjee's TMC set to sweep all 4 bypolls in West Bengal
Kolkata/IBNS: In further setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is all set for a clean sweep in all four byelections held in the state on July 10.
The four byelections were held in Maniktala, Bagda, Ranaghat Dakshin and Raiganj.
In Maniktala, TMC candidate Supti Pande, who is the wife of late minister Sadhan Pande, is ahead of BJP's Kalyan Chaubey by over 20,000 votes.
Supti Pande, who was a college friend of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was controversially announced as the TMC candidate as the party supremo denied late Sadhan Pande's daughter Shreya Pande ticket.
Shreya was actively holding the reins of the TMC in Maniktala since 2022 after Sadhan Pande passed away.
In Bagda, young TMC candidate Madhuparna Thakur is ahead of BJP's Binaykumar Biswas by over 14,000 votes after the seventh round of counting.
In Ranaghat Dakshin, TMC's Mukut Mani Adhikari is ahead of BJP's Manoj Kumar Biswas by over 19,000 votes.
In Raiganj, TMC's Krishna Kalyani is ahead of BJP's Manas Kumar Ghosh by over 31,000 votes.
In the 2021 assembly elections, the TMC stormed back to power for the third consecutive term dashing BJP's hope to gain power in the state for the first time.
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