Kolkata: Counting continues today for the results of the by-elections held on November 25 in the three assembly seats of West Bengal. According to the Election Commission, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was leading in two seats, while the BJP was leading in one seat. The ruling TMC is getting a tough fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state. This is the first time in the state after the Lok Sabha elections when these two political parties are facing each other in the electoral arena.
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Of the three seats for which by-elections have been held, one was occupied by TMC, the other by BJP and the third by Congress. The by-election counting of three seats in Bengal could be a litmus test for the BJP and the ruling TMC, which won 18 seats in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections. After the Lok Sabha elections, this by-election is the first test of the ruling TMC in the state and the BJP which performed well in the Lok Sabha elections.
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The seats where the by-elections were held are Kharagpur in West Medinipur district, Karimpur in Nadia district and Kaliaganj seats in Uttar Dinajpur. Kaliaganj seat has been vacated by the death of Congress MLA Pramathanath Rai, while the state BJP unit president Dilip Ghosh, who was last elected MLA from Kharagpur seat, resigned after winning the Lok Sabha elections. Trinamool MLA Mahua Mitra of Karimpur also resigned after being elected from Krishnanagar parliamentary seat.