Malda Feb 28: The Trinamool congress outcasted the
Congress with an emphatic win in the Malda by poll on Thursday registering a
margin of 20,452 votes. The TMC candidate Krishnendu Chowdhury who is also the
state tourism minister won the English Bazar seat to conquer the congress
bastion.
Ever since the counting started this morning, Choudhury
lead with ample votes while the congress lacked behind in every round. CPI-M got back to
the fight when the votes of the urban areas were being counted. They pushed the
Congress back to the third position but could not surpass Choudhury in any
round. Even in the municipal wards popularly known as the CPI-M bastion in
English Bazaar, Trinamul Congress bagged huge number of votes. The BJP managed
to bag only 10 percent of the total vote casted.
The CPI-M got
50,339 votes including 56 postal ballots and Tiwary got 45,271 including 5
postal ballots. BJP’s Sanjit Mishra got only 9,442 votes with no postal ballot.
Choudhury had won
the seat as a Congress candidate under TMC-Congress alliance by defeating CPIM
by 21,829 votes in 2011 Assembly elections. The fight this time was triangular
as the Congress and the TMC fought elections separately.
The seat had
remained vacant after Choudhury switched over from the Congress to the
Trinamool Congress few months back.
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