Sagardighi assembly

In a personal victory for West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the party Thursday looked set to wrest the Trinamool Congress stronghold of ...

ADHIR RANJAN CHOWDHURY: There should be more focus on the integrity of the candidates. I go to these meetings, but the way the government prepares the list of candidates… this time they voted in a strategic manner in order to defeat the TMC. We have garnered a little percentage of the votes from that disgruntled section of the ruling party. [set to wrest the Trinamool Congress stronghold of Sagardighi Assembly seat](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/bengal-bypoll-cong-pulls-ahead-tmc-stronghold-mark-shift-muslim-vote-8474853/), in a bypoll. The opinion of the common people is not the patent of any political leader, however high and mighty that person may be.

Congress candidate Bayron Biswas was leading in the Sagardighi assembly seat in West Bengal's Murshidabad district where counting of votes was underway for ...

By-poll was necessitated following the death of state minister Subrata Saha in December last year. "The result proves that Mamata Banerjee is not invincible. "I am confident about my victory.

The counting of votes for the Sagardighi assembly bypoll is underway. Sagardighi Assembly constituency in Murshidabad district, where polling was held on ...

He was a three-time TMC legislator from the Sagardighi Assembly constituency in Murshidabad district, securing consecutive victories in 2011, 2016 and 2021. Subrata Saha of TMC won the seat in 2021. Candidates of the ruling Trinamool Congress, the Opposition BJP and the Congress-Left alliance are the main contestants.

Biswas, who enjoys the support of the Left, was leading by 22434 votes over TMC candidate Debashish Banerjee.

But after the sudden demise of Saha on December 29 last year, the by-poll was necessitated. He was a three-time Trinamool legislator from Sagardighi, securing victories in 2011, 2016 and 2021. The Congress on Thursday secured a seat in the present Bengal assembly as its candidate Bayron Biswas won the Sagardighi bypoll, defeating the nearest rival of the TMC by 22,980 votes.

Left Front-supported Congress candidate Baryon Biswas has defeated Trinamool Congress nominee Debashish Banerjee in Sagardighi bye-election in West Bengal.

The TMC, which had been winning the seat since 2011, secured a margin of more than 50,000 votes in the 2021 assembly elections. Conceding the defeat, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the loss is because of an “immoral alliance” between Left parties, Congress and the BJP. Bypoll was necessitated in the minority-dominated Sagardighi assembly seat of West Bengal’s Murshidabad district following the death of State minister Subrata Saha in December last year.

On Sagardighi assembly seat in West Bengal, Congress candidate Bayron Biswas is currently leading with 22434 votes against Debashish Banerjee of the ...

Speaking on the by-election result, Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, "TMC earlier has defeated Congress many times by torturing people with the help of police. Muslims can be cheated once but not always," he said. Terming an immoral alliance between Congress-CPI(M) and BJP, Mamata Banerjee claimed that the saffron party transferred its votes to the Congress as the former's party candidate is on the verge of losing the election.

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee accused the Congress-Left combine of having an 'immoral alliance' with the BJP and said that her party will not enter into any ...

We want the opposition who want to fight the TMC and the BJP, to unite.” “There was an immoral alliance (between the BJP, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPIM and the Congress). In 2021 assembly polls we saw a bipolar contest between the BJP and the TMC. If there is an immoral alliance and they want to fight Mamata Banerjee, how will the Congress or Left fight the BJP? Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly played the minority politics card and has betrayed them,” Adhir Chowdhury, leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, told the press. This is a joint victory of the Left and the Congress.

TMC had won Sagardighi last 3 times, Cong backed by Left Front climbs from third place finish in 2021.

“The Muslims of Bengal know that the TMC acts as an agent of the BJP. He also said that the Muslims had turned away from the TMC as the party had “betrayed” them. Welcoming the result, CPI(M) state secretary Md Selim said: “We not only thank the voters of Sagardighi but also those who fought against communal politics and corruption and hooliganism. “Those who want to defeat the BJP, they will vote for us, and those who vote for the Congress and CPI(M), they will actually vote for the BJP. “As I said earlier, the Congress is not going to lose and today it has been proven.” Thankfully, it is now out in the open after this election.”