West Bengal by-elections: TMC wins Kaliaganj and Kharagpur, ahead in Karimpur
Kolkata/IBNS: In a boost for party chief Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) wrested Kaliaganj and Kharagpur Sadar seats and is also ahead by a comfortable margin in Karimpur constituency as the results of by-elections in all the three seats are coming out on Thursday.
TMC candidate Tapan Deb Singha won the Kaliaganj seat by 2,304 votes.
Mamata's candidate from Kharagpur, which was earlier held by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Pradip Sarkar won by 18,747 votes.
In Karimpur, TMC's Bimalendu Singha Roy is ahead by over 23,000 votes.
"We want to dedicate the win people of Bengal," West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee told a local Bengali news channel.
The Karimpur and Kharagpur seats fell vacant after TMC's Mahua Moitra and BJP's Dilip Ghosh- the MLAs of the respective seats- had resigned following their election to the Lok Sabha.
The Kaliaganj seat fell vacant due to the death of then Congress MLA Pramatha Nath Roy.
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