Bypoll results 2022: TMC sweeps Bengal, Cong wins two, RJD claims Bihar seat
Hindustan TimesThe Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday received a setback in the bypolls to one Lok Sabha seat in Bengal and four assembly constituencies. In Bengal, Asansol Lok Sabha seat went to polls after it was vacated by Babul Supriyo who contested the Ballygunge assembly seat as a TMC candidate and won. TMC sweeps Bengal bypolls Veteran actor and TMC candidate Shatrughan Sinha won the Asansol Lok Sabha seat by a margin of over 3 lakh votes. Sinha, who started his political career with the BJP before quitting the party in 2019 and joining the Congress before the Lok Sabha polls, was declared the TMC candidate last month. In Ballygunge, TMC's Babul Supriyo defeated Keya Ghosh of the BJP and Saira Shah Halim of the CPI by winning nearly 50 per cent of the votes.