"Game has started": Kunal Ghosh as TMC inches towards victory in bypolls - World News Network

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 13 (ANI): With the Trinamool Congress (TMC) winning three seats and leading in one in the West Bengal Assembly bypoll, party leader Kunal Ghosh said that the game has started and those who had voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha polls have realised that they are not ready to waste their votes on the BJP.
“…This was bound to happen. Some people who had voted for BJP in Lok Sabha, have realised that they will not waste their votes…,” Ghosh said speaking to ANI on Saturday.
The TMC leader also claimed that the Narendra Modi government is not going to stay in power at the Centre for long.
“The game has started. Modi government in Delhi will not stay for a long time. INDIA alliance will form the government and the role of TMC in it will be very significant,” Ghosh said.
Meanwhile, TMC’s leading candidate from Maniktala Assembly constituency, Supti Pandey said, “I am grateful to every councillor, all my team leaders, block presidents and on top of that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee…”
Pandey is leading in Maniktala by a margin of more than 62 thousand votes against BJP’s Kalyan Chaubey as of Saturday afternoon.
The ruling party’s Krishna Kalyani has won from 35 – Raiganj, Mukut Mani Adhikari has won from 90 – Ranaghat Dakshin and Madhuparna Thakur has won from 94 – Bagda.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shankar Ghosh said that they will be scrutinizing the results at the booth level and find out the drawback from their side.
“We are waiting for the final result. We will wait and thereafter we will scrutinize all the booth results. Then we can say what is the drawback from our side,” Ghosh said speaking to ANI.
Speaking about the alleged violence unleased by the ruling party ahead of polls, Ghosh said, “But as you know, from day one we have always tried to explain the terror politics done by the ruling party TMC and that also affects the polling result.”
“If there is any kind of gap from our organisational part we will try to overcome it,” he added.
West Bengal witnessed a voter turnout of 62.71 per cent in the bypolls to four assembly constituencies. The bypolls in West Bengal were necessitated as Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj, Biswajit Das from Bagdah, and Mukut Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat Dakshin gave up their seats to contest the Lok Sabha elections.
While the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool is aiming to sustain the dominance it achieved in the recent parliamentary elections, where it secured 29 out of 42 seats in Bengal, the BJP is seeking a rebound after its Lok Sabha seat count dropped from 18 in 2019 to 12.
The counting of votes for the 13 legislative assembly seats spread across seven states began on Saturday morning.
Polling took place on July 10 for the assembly seats in Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.
The Election Commission held the by-elections in one seat of Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, and Madhya Pradesh, two seats of Uttarakhand, three seats of Himachal Pradesh, and four seats of Uttarakhand.
The constituencies included Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda, and Maniktala in West Bengal; Dehra, Hamirpur, and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh; Badrinath and Manglaur in Uttarakhand; Jalandhar West in Punjab; Rupauli in Bihar; Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu; and Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP and the Congress are locked in a straight fight on most of the seats, while the TMC and DMK are also in the fray. (ANI)

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