Trinamool minister wins Assembly bypoll

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Feb 28 2013 | 1:20 PM IST
Trinamool Congress minister Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury won the Assembly by-election from English Bazar constituency in Malda district today with a margin of 20,452 votes.
Choudhary defeated his nearest CPIM rival Kaushik Mishra.
In the other two constituencies of Rejinagar and Nalhati, the Congress and Forward Bloc are leading respectively, State Election Commissioner Sunil Gupta said.
All three seats were won by Congress candidates in the 2011 Assembly elections at a time when Congress had an alliance with the TMC.
The Nalhati Assembly seat fell vacant after its MLA Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee, quit his seat to fight the Lok Sabha by-election from Jangipur.
Elections to English Bazar and Rejinagar seats were necessitated following resignation of Congress MLAs Krishnendu Choudhury and Humayun Kabir after their switch-over to the TMC.
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First Published: Feb 28 2013 | 1:20 PM IST

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