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Trinamool On Course For Clean Sweep In Bengal Bypolls; BJP Retains Pithoragarh In Uttarakhand
Swarajya Staff
Nov 28, 2019, 04:24 PM | Updated 04:24 PM IST
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Results of the bypolls today (27 November) in three assembly seats of West Bengal have almost handed the ruling Trinamool party in the state a clean sweep, with its candidates Tapan Deb Singha and Pradip Sarkar winning in Kaliaganj and Kharagpur Sadar.
Its third candidate Bimalendu Sinha Roy has gained a comfortable lead of 24,119 votes in Karimpur, and he is likely to pick up the state. The results are disappointing for the BJP which had just six months ago surprised political pundits with an unexpectedly strong performance in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha polls.
The one respite for the party today is that its candidate Chandra Pant has emerged the winner in the Pithoragarh assembly seat of Uttarakhand, edging out Anju Lunthi of the Congress.
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