Kolkata, June 23 -- The West Bengal ruling Trinamool Congress headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's electoral success continues to frustrate the Opposition, including the BJP, as her party candidate Alifa Khatun won the Kaliganj assembly bypoll in Nadia district on Monday by a record margin of over half a lakh votes over the nearest BJP rival.
The election office said while the 28-year-old winner secured 1,02,179 votes, her closest opponent BJP's Ashish Ghosh got 52, 424 votes and Congress candidate supported by the Left Front got only 28,262 votes in the June 19 bypoll where some 73 per cent voters of the total over 2.5 lakh electors turned up at polling booths.
Alifa Ahmed broke her father Nasiruddin Ahmed's winning margin of 47,0...