The final outcome will be a huge boost to the ruling camp in Bengal as the party is most likely to wrest the seats of Dinhata and Santipur which the BJP had won during the Assembly polls
The central BJP leadership has asked two party MPs who were elected as MLAs to quit the Assembly and retain the membership of the Lok Sabha.
The decision with regard to Ranaghat MP Jagannath Sarkar and Cooch Behar MP Nisith Pramanik betrayed the BJP’s jitters about bypolls in the two Lok Sabha seats in the aftermath of the Trinamul Congress’s landslide victory in the Assembly elections.
The BJP had fielded four Lok Sabha members in the Assembly polls. But Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and Asansol MP and Union minister Babul Supriyo were defeated. Swapan Dasgupta had resigned as the nominated member of the Rajya Sabha and contested the Assembly elections as a BJP candidate. He also lost.