West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee wins Bhabanipur bypoll by record margin

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee won the Bhabanipur bypoll with a record margin of 58,832 votes.

The election assumes importance for Mamata Banerjee as she has to enter the Assembly before the completion of first six months of her chief ministership.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission wrote to the chief secretary directing him to prohibit victory celebrations and processions to prevent any incident of post-poll violence.


Tibrewal, on Saturday night, wrote to the Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Rajesh Bindal, urging him to give orders to the police to take preventive steps to avoid incidents of violence after the declaration of the results.

After Banerjee's defeat in Nandigram, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, a state minister, vacated the Bhabanipur seat to facilitate her return to the assembly from there.

The TMC had won the seat in the April-May assembly polls by a margin of around 28,000 votes.

(With inputs from PTI)