KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress today made a clean sweep in the by-elections to Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara assembly seats, while BJP finished second increasing it vote share.
CPI(M)-led Left Front was pushed to the third position while Congress candidates suffered the ignominy of losing security deposits in both the seats, including Noapara which it won in 2016.
TMC candidate Sajda Ahmed trounced Anupam Mallick of BJP by over 4.74 lakh votes in Uluberia Lok Sabha seat in Howrah district.
She has secured 7,67,219 votes as against 2,93,018 votes bagged by the BJP candidate.
Sajda is the wife of TMC MP Sultan Ahmed, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
The BJP’s vote in the seat has doubled as the party secured slightly over 1.37 lakh votes in Uluberia in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. (AGENCIES)
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