New Delhi: Congress candidate and son of President Pranab Mukherjee,
Abhijit won the Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll by a slender margin of 2,536 votes on Saturday. Abhijit was leading by a margin of 6541 votes at end of the counting of votes in the ninth round, reports earlier in the day said.
There were jitters in the Congress camp early in the morning after, at the end of vote-counting in the first round, Abhijit trailed behind CPM candidate Mozaffar Hossain. However, Abhijit had established his lead in the second round, leading by 2371 votes.
Abhijit decided to contest the by-poll after Pranab vacated the seat in July this year to contest in the Presidential election. Sixty per cent polling was recorded in the by-election. This was, however, far less as compared to 84.71 per cent voting registered for the same seat in the 2009 election....
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03:15 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit was leading by a margin of 6541 votes at end of the counting of votes in the ninth round in the Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll, reports said on Saturday. There was slight nervousness in the Congress camp after, at the end of vote-counting in the first round, Abhijit trailed behind CPM candidate Muzaffar Hussain. However, he bounced back and established a lead of...
12:57 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Kolkata: Sixty per cent polling was recorded in the by-election to Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal on Wednesday where President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee, as the Congress candidate, was locked in a multi-cornered contest with 11 others. The polling recorded this time, however, was far less as compared to 84.71 per cent voting registered for the same seat in the 2009 election. Returning officer Rajiv Kumar said...
03:18 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Jangipur: Despite severing of ties between both the parties, the Trinamool Congress didn't put up any candidate for the Jangipur bypoll against Congress nominee Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee. Trinamool district president Md Ali said, "This was Pranab babu's seat. And the candidate now is his son, so as a mark of respect to the President, we didn't put up any candidate". Although BJP's Sudhanshu Biswas is also...
12:00 PM, Sep 23, 2012
New Delhi: President-elect Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit has reportedly expressed desire to contest the Lok Sabha seat from his father's constituency, Jangipur. The seat fell vacant after Pranab was elected to be India's next President. Murshidabad strongman Adhir Choudhary has already offered to support him. Abhijit is currently an MLA from Nalhati in Birbhum. The state Congress leaderhship, however, is yet to take a final decision on the matter. ...
12:54 PM, Jul 24, 2012
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03:00 PM, Apr 05, 2009
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12:10 PM, Mar 23, 2009
Flowers and the auspicious sound of conch shells greeted the leader. ...
09:05 AM, Mar 22, 2009
Mukherjee struck an emotional chord with his electorate in Jangipur. ...
10:04 AM, Mar 20, 2009
