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BJP candidate wins Tripura by-election

By IANS | Updated: June 4, 2024 18:25 IST

Agartala, June 4 Ruling BJP candidate Dipak Majumder on Tuesday won the by-election to the Ramnagar Assembly seat ...

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Agartala, June 4 Ruling BJP candidate Dipak Majumder on Tuesday won the by-election to the Ramnagar Assembly seat in Tripura defeating his CPI(M) opponent Ratan Das by a margin of 18,014 votes.

Majumder, who is also the Mayor of the Agartala Municipal Corporation, secured 25,380 votes while Das managed only 7,366 votes.

The by-election to the Ramnagar Assembly seat was held on April 19. The seat fell vacant after the demise of sitting BJP MLA Surajit Datta on December 28 last year.

Das, a former CPI(M) MLA, was the consensus nominee of the INDIA bloc.

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