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  • TMC’s Hossain wins Jangipur by a massive margin of 92,480 votes, as party sweeps by-polls

    By PTI

    KOLKATA/BERHAMPORE: After Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s expected landslide victory from Bhabanipur assembly constituency, TMC candidates in Samserganj and Jangipur in Murshidabad district notched impressive wins with TMC’s Jakir Hossain winning Jangipur by a massive margin of 92,480 votes.

    Jangipur’s Trinamool Congress nominee Jakir Hossain secured some 1,36,444 votes, while his nearest rival, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sujit Das, polled 43,964 votes in a one-sided electoral battle.

    Hossain was declared victorious with a margin of 92,480 votes.

    Except Jane Alam Mian of Revolutionary Socialist Party, no other candidate reached four figures.

    In Samserganj, TMC candidate Amirul Islam won by a margin of 26,379 votes.

    He secured 96,417 votes, while his nearest rival, Zaidur Rahaman of the Congress, got 70,038.

    Murshidabad was earlier seen as a Congress stronghold.

    TMC’s victories in all assembly constituencies of the district places the Congress in a difficult position in the state of West Bengal.

  • RSP candidate passes away, EC puts off poll at West Bengal’s Jangipur seat 

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Saturday put off assembly election to the Jangipur seat in West Bengal following the death of a Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate.

    As per provisions of the Representation of the People Act, in case a candidate of a recognised party dies, the poll is put off to allow the party decide on a new candidate.

    The new candidate gets to file his or her nomination and goes through the entire process of scrutiny of documents and the opportunity to withdraw nomination.

    A commission spokesperson said, “Poll at 58 Jangipur AC in Murshidabad scheduled on April 26 stands adjourned due to death of RSP candidate.

    ” The Election Commission would announce a fresh poll schedule for the seat in the coming days, officials said.

    Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate Pradip Kumar Nandi, who tested positive for COVID-19 four days ago, died at a hospital in Berhampore on Friday.

    Nandi, 73, was the party’s nominee from the Jangipur assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the ongoing West Bengal assembly elections.