Trinamool Congress Wins Both Uluberia Lok Sabha and Naopara Assembly Seats by a Big Margin
The by-election results of Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly seats, where counting starts at 7 am, will be a litmus test for the BJP, which is desperately eyeing fresh pastures in the state in the upcoming rural polls as much as they have been prestige fights for the ruling TMC.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, TMC had won 34 out of the 44 parliamentary seats in Bengal. The Congress bagged four while the Left and BJP won two seats each. The TMC swept the 2016 Bengal state polls by winning 211 out of the 294 seats. The Congress was a distant second with 44 seats. The Left won 32 and the BJP six seats
The death of two-time TMC MP Sultan Ahmed had left the Uluberia parliamentary seat in Howrah vacant, while the death of Congress MLA Madhusudan Ghose necessitated the Noapara Assembly by-poll in North 24 Parganas district.
Both Uluberia and Noapara witnessed a quadrangular contest with BJP emerging as the prime challenger to the TMC.
With nearly 40 percent minority community vote share, Uluberia has elected Muslim leaders for the past four decades. In keeping with that trend, Trinamool fielded Sultan Ahmed's widow, Sajda, from the constituency. The BJP responded by fielding its Howrah rural district president Anupam Mallik, after TMC’s Manju Basu backed out from contesting the polls on a BJP ticket.
The CPI(M)-led Left Front repeated Sabiruddin Mollah, who was trampled by over two lakh votes by Sultan Ahmed in 2014, while the Congress fielded S K Madassar Hossain Warsi from the seat
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