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Near a memorial to Umakanta Mahato in Birihanri village in Jhargram district in West Bengal, a group of farm workers are sitting in blazing sun. Umakanta was a Maoist leader shot dead by security forces in 2010.
The TMC is likely to support the candidature of Kodikunil Suresh for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker during the election on Wednesday, sources close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told The Indian Express.
Sitting on one of a dozen beds laid out on the third floor of the BJP office in West Bengal’s Baruipur town, 38-year-old Prasanta Haldar says, “Election season mane amader ghor chharar season (election season for us means the season of leaving home).”
The BJP on Tuesday lost ground in the key state of West Bengal, with its tally plummeting from 18 to 12. The party that posted its best-ever result five years ago faced the second big setback in the state after the loss in the Assembly elections three years ago. The Trinamool Congress (TMC), meanwhile kept up its dominance in state politics, benefitting from the anti-incumbency votes getting divided between the BJP, Left, and Congress even as the anti-BJP vote remained intact.
Not only did Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee hold her ground in West Bengal, but her party also made major gains, thereby puncturing the BJP’s plan to breach the TMC’s fortress once again.
As the Trinamool Congress (TMC) looks set to stamp its dominance in West Bengal politics, leading in 30 of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, and the BJP’s tally looks set to reduce, one of the major results is coming from Baharampur where state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is trailing TMC candidate and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan.
Initial trends show the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is not only holding fort in West Bengal, but gaining against the BJP.
Finishing his morning campaign across Falta under Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, 34-year-old Pratikur Rehman gets down from the open jeep in which he had been accompanied by state CPI(M) secretary Md Salim and state Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy.
Finishing his morning campaign across Falta under Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, 34-year-old Pratikur Rehman gets down from the open jeep in which he had been accompanied by state CPI(M) secretary Md Salim and state Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy.