According to the Election Commission of India, Mamata Banerjee secured 85,263 votes which are around 71.90 per cent of the total votes polled in the by-election.
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee will take oath as a member of the West Bengal Assembly on Thursday days after she won the keenly contested Bhabanipur bypoll.
Two other newly-elected Trinamool Congress legislators will also take oath at along with her. The oath ceremony will be held at 2 PM, according to a Twitter post from West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
On October 5, the Governor had said that the oath-taking ceremony was supposed to be held initially at 11.45 am, but the timing was changed following a request of state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee.
“Governor WB Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar would administer oath/affirmation to the elected members to the WBLA, viz., Mamata Banerjee Jakir Hossian and Amirul Islam at the premises of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on October 7, 2021 at 11.45 hours,” he had tweeted.
According to the Election Commission of India, Mamata Banerjee secured 85,263 votes which are around 71.90 per cent of the total votes polled in the by-election.
Banerjee's rival from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Priyanka Tibrewal got 26,428 votes and Communist Party of India CPI candidate Srijib Biswas secured 4,226 votes
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