While the saffron camp won 7.7% of the votes in the 2016 assembly elections, it secured 23.7% this year. The earlier ones were held in the Lok Sabha seat of Uluberia in February this year and Noapara and Sabang - both assembly seats - in February and December 2017. It will reach about a lakh in 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” said Trinamool Lok Sabha member and the chief minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee. He connected the bypoll results with the larger picture of the Lok Sabha polls scheduled to be held next year. Vijaya Dasami will arrive in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls,” Banerjee remarked even before the final result was declared.

Source: Hindustan Times May 31, 2018 09:30 UTC