Seven months earlier there was a lot of talk about West Bengal Assembly elections. It was the ruling party Trinamool Congress who was facing a lot of heat from its fierce opposition and competitor Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). It was not only the local leaders but also big leaders of BJP like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah put on big rallies to get in power of West Bengal. However, nothing could stop TMC. Under the leadership of Mamamta Banerjee, TMC gave a crushing defeat to BJP in the state elections.
It is a bit of dejavu yet again today. Yes, it was not a state level election, nor the campaign had big leaders from opposition, yet the results were the same. Today at the West Bengal Municipal elections, TMC yet again crushed other parties, especially the hope of BJP.
The party retained power in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation by winning 134 wards out of the 144 in the KMC polls. Addressing the media outside her Kalighat residence, West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee showed a victory sign and called it a “national mandate”. Later, she went to attend a Pujo being held in Assam.
“It’s a national mandate as other national parties also contested with Left and BJP and we have won, people have given a clear mandate, the vote took place in a festive mood and we are indebted to people,” Banerjee told reporters outside her residence.
Out of 144 wards, the BJP got 3, Congress bagged 2, Left Front got 2 and IND won 3. The counting of votes for KMC polls began this morning at 8 am. The KMC is divided into 144 administrative wards, which are grouped into 16 boroughs. The TMC has been in power in KMC since 2010. In the last KMC polls in 2015, TMC had won 124 seats, whereas the Left Front bagged 13. The BJP and the Congress had secured five and two seats, respectively.
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