Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who won the Bhawanipore seat in a by-election, will take oath as a member of State Assembly along with two other party MLAs on October 7.
This was revealed in a Raj Bhawan tweet that said “Governor WB Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar would administer oath/affirmation to the elected members to the WBLA viz., Mamata Banerjee, Jakir Hussein and Amirul Islam at the premises of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly (WBLA) on 7 October, 2021 at 11:45 hours.”
Banerjee had won the Bhawanipore seat by a record margin of 58,835 votes. She needed to win the election to remain Chief Minister as she had earlier been defeated from Nandigram by Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari in the April-May Assembly elections.
While Hossain won the Jangipur seat by a whopping margin of 92,480 votes Islam won from Samsrganj by a margin of 26,379 votes.