Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of Bengal, said her party winning two important elections in the state today is "a miracle" which proves that her party, the Trinamool Congress, has not been impacted by either the Saradha scam - a multi-crore Ponzi scheme that bankrupted thousands of small investors - or reports of raging internal dissent within the party.
"This is a miracle result. People's magic... They have bowled all the controversies out," Ms Banerjee tweeted with a quick nod to the World Cup frenzy.
Several top leaders of Ms Banerjee's party have been arrested for alleged links to the Saradha scam and are now in jail. The Chief Minister has described the action against her aides as political vendetta by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
The Bongaon seat in the Lok Sabha and the assembly constituency of Krishanganj had to pick new representatives of Trinamool law-makers died in October last year. The party has increased its margin of victory in both the seats - good news for the Trinamool ahead of the crucial Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections this year and the state election next year.
Dinesh Trivedi, a senior Trinamool leader whose recent lavish praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi had led to talk of his defecting to the BJP, was promoted to party Vice-President.
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