For representational purposes (File Photo | PTI) 
Nation

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

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.

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.

Second killing in Minneapolis by US federal agents sparks uproar

Tale of two loves: 75-year-old man pedals ill wife to hospital 350 km away and back on rickshaw

Snowstorm brings Manali to standstill; tourists stranded overnight, patient dies in ambulance

23-year-old Hindu man burned alive in Bangladesh; family calls it 'planned murder'

Path open to lift 25 per cent tariff: US

SCROLL FOR NEXT