Mamata Banerjee thanked the voters as the TMC came close to winning the by-elections held in Asansol and Ballygunge in Bengal. On Twitter, she said, “I sincerely thank the electors of the Asansol Parliamentary Constituency and the Ballygunge Assembly Constituency for giving a decisive mandate to AITC birthday celebration candidates. We consider this to be our people’s heat Shubho Nababarsho gift to our Ma- Mati- Manush organization. Salute to the voters for reposing faith in us, but again.”
TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha is leading in Asansol seat by 1,02,000 votes, Babul Supriyo is also ahead in the Ballygunge seat.
Babul Supriya Babul Supriya is leading by 7,872 votes at the end of tenth round counting.
Counting is underway for one Lok Sabha seat in Bengal’s Asansol and four assembly seats in Ballyganj in Bengal, Khairagarh in Chhattisgarh, Bochahan in Bihar and Kolhapur in Maharashtra. TMC chief Babul Supriyo, a candidate for the Ballygunge seat, said that he was once confident of winning the election.
