KOLKATA: As expected, the BJP won the re election in the Falta Assembly constituency, a traditional stronghold of the Trinamool Congress under the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat in South 24 Parganas district, raising its tally to 208 out of 294 Assembly constituencies in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
The result also indicated a significant electoral rise for the CPI M led Left Front, which secured the second position in Falta.
The BJP’s main rival, the former ruling party Trinamool Congress, was pushed to the fourth position in Falta with 7,756 votes, while the Congress secured more than 10,000 votes after the completion of counting in the final 21st round.
The counting was held at the Diamond Harbour Women’s College.
I owe a lot to you and will pay it back through development works in Falta,” Suvendu wrote in the X post.
KOLKATA: As expected, the BJP won the re election in the Falta Assembly constituency, a traditional stronghold of the Trinamool Congress under the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat in South 24 Parganas district, raising its tally to 208 out of 294 Assembly constituencies in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
The result also indicated a significant electoral rise for the CPI M led Left Front, which secured the second position in Falta.
The BJP’s main rival, the former ruling party Trinamool Congress, was pushed to the fourth position in Falta with 7,756 votes, while the Congress secured more than 10,000 votes after the completion of counting in the final 21st round.
Repolling in the Falta constituency, which has traditionally witnessed poll violence, including alleged false voting, rigging, booth jamming and intimidation sponsored by the then ruling Trinamool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee, was held peacefully across 285 polling stations on 21 May without any reports of violence.
The counting was held at the Diamond Harbour Women’s College.
BJP candidate Debangshu Panda, who secured more than 1,49,000 votes, won the seat by a margin of over 1,08,000 votes against his nearest rival, Sambhunath Kurmi of the CPI M, who bagged more than 40,000 votes.
Expressing his gratitude to the voters for the BJP’s landslide victory in Falta, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said in a post on X in Bengali: “Trinamool Congress’s notorious ‘Diamond Harbour’ model from today has been turned into a ‘model defeat’. First of all, I offer my pranam to the people of Falta for sending our BJP candidate to the Legislative Assembly with huge mandates.”
“I had also made requests to you (voters) to make our candidate a winner with a margin of minimum one lakh votes. But you have given him more than that. I owe a lot to you and will pay it back through development works in Falta,” Suvendu wrote in the X post.
