By-Election Results 2022: The Bengal by-elections are likely to be the most closely followed, with the Trinamool Congress fielding two candidates for the seats.
The votes for the recently finished by-elections in Bengal's Asansol Lok Sabha seat and assembly seats in Bengal's Ballygunge, Chhattisgarh's Khairagarh, Bihar's Bochahan, and Maharashtra's Kolhapur North are being counted.
Here's the explanation of the key story:
Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, the Trinamool Congress's candidate from Asansol, is now dominating the polls. Babul Supriyo of the Trinamool Congress, who converted from the BJP, is leading in the Ballygunge Assembly segment.
Trinamool Congress is hoping to end a curse in Asansol, where it has never won a Lok Sabha seat.
The primary rivals in Asansol, one of Bengal's largest cities, are a "outsider" and a candidate who refers to herself as the city's "daughter." Mr Sinha is up against Agnimitra Paul, a designer-turned-MLA from the BJP. Mr Supriyo, a former BJP MP who converted to the Trinamool Congress last year and pledged loyalty to Mamata Banerjee, left the Asansol parliamentary seat empty.
Mukesh Sahani had gotten into trouble with the BJP after constantly attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during campaigning for assembly elections in the neighbouring state, where his party ran for more than 50 seats but lost badly. He has now endorsed Gita Devi, whose father, Ramai Ram, ran for the RJD in the 2020 assembly elections. The BJP has fielded Baby Kumari, who is known in the constituency as a "giant killer." She had won the seat as an Independent in 2015, defeating Ramai Ram, who had previously represented Bochahan on numerous parties' banners.
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