The Trinamool Congress on September 8 won the byelection to the Dhupguri Assembly seat in West Bengal, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 4,309 votes.
Trinamool candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy, a college professor, secured 97,613 votes (46.28%), while his nearest rival Tapasi Roy of the BJP secured 93,304 votes (44.23 %). Ms. Roy is the widow of a CRPF jawan killed in Kashmir.
The byelection was necessitated by the death of BJP MLA Bishnu Pada Ray.
