Bengal by-poll: Trinamool wins big in Maheshtala (Lead)
Thursday - May 31, 2018 2:18 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Kolkata May 31 (IANS) West Bengal s ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday retained the Maheshtala Assembly seat with an impressive margin while the BJP took the second spot by displacing the CPI-M.
Trinamool candidate Dulal Das trounced his nearest rival Bharatiya Janata Party s Sujit Kumar Ghosh by 62 896 votes.
While Das bagged 1 04 818 votes Ghosh received the support of 41 992 voters.
Left Front-spearhead Communist Party of India-Marxist aspirant Pravat Chowdhury backed by the Congress managed to obtain 30 316 votes in the triangular contest.
In the 2016 Assembly polls CPI-M s heavyweight candidate Shamik Lahiri had gone down by 12 452 votes to Trinamool s Kasturi Das in the constituency.
The CPI-M-led Left Front had entered into an alliance with the Congress then and the BJP received only seven percent of the valid votes.
Kasturi Das s demise caused the by-election.
Dulal Kasturi s husband and chairman of the Maheshtala municipality led from the outset and went on consolidating his position after every round.
--IANS ssp/vd
Trinamool candidate Dulal Das trounced his nearest rival Bharatiya Janata Party s Sujit Kumar Ghosh by 62 896 votes.
While Das bagged 1 04 818 votes Ghosh received the support of 41 992 voters.
Left Front-spearhead Communist Party of India-Marxist aspirant Pravat Chowdhury backed by the Congress managed to obtain 30 316 votes in the triangular contest.
In the 2016 Assembly polls CPI-M s heavyweight candidate Shamik Lahiri had gone down by 12 452 votes to Trinamool s Kasturi Das in the constituency.
The CPI-M-led Left Front had entered into an alliance with the Congress then and the BJP received only seven percent of the valid votes.
Kasturi Das s demise caused the by-election.
Dulal Kasturi s husband and chairman of the Maheshtala municipality led from the outset and went on consolidating his position after every round.
--IANS ssp/vd
