Kolkata: After Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Trinamool Congress on Monday won the civilian body poll in the country’s largest cities – Bidhananagar, Siliguri, Asansol and Chandernagore.
BJP appeared both deep in Siliguri and Asansol, while the left front nudged BJP to third place in Bidhannagar and Chandernagore.
CM Mamata Banerjee in his first reaction said, “I thank you and indebted to the people of Bengal.
In the past even wild incidents on the day of polls had caused large-scale criticism.
But this time, we managed to elect with zero cases of violence.
I personally have instructed the government several times to ensure the process of voting peace and I am happy in the way the police administration and state officials of the Election Commission have worked to ensure that the whole process is free of problems.
” CM added, “I only hope with every victory, we can become more polite, capable and committed to work for the people.
I begged every TMC worker did not react to Instigations and celebrations that must be civilized with only one slogan -.
TMC Thank you everyone “cm announced that Gautam Deb will be a candidate for TMC Mayor in Siliguri.
This is the first time TMC will be in the office at Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC).
Former Mayor Siliguri Asok Bhattacharya was lost in the poll.
Deb said, “Life has come a full circle for us today.
We are indebted to people.
” In the possibility of the Mayor’s candidate for Bidhannagar, CM said, “At maybe the candidate mayor in Bidnagar.
This party will determine who is the mayor.
Any observer will meet and decide that.
” Previously TMC swept the election of Bidhannagar’s civil body, won 39 of 41 wards from Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Congress and independent have one ward each.
The Trinamool has further consolidated its position compared to the 2015 civil body polls when Trinamool has won 37 wards as left and Congress has taken two wards each.
Outgoing Bidhannagar Mayor Krishna Chakraborty, who won for the third time in a row defeated the closest CPM candidate with a difference of 2,259 people said that this victory was the victory of the people and victory of Mamata Banerjee and that he would be happy to play a role that would be entrusted to him by the party.
Former Mayor Bidhannagar Sabyasachi Dutta, who defeated former BMC MMIC Devasish Jana, fighting this time on a BJP ticket by 4,634 people, dedicated victory to people and said that anyone who sat in the mayor’s seat, it was the Mayor’s Banerjee Mamata.
In the BJP Asansol faced a drastic decline in their voice bank where they had had a healthy mandate in the 2021 Assembly election.
In the percentage of the sound of the asansol Trinamool Congress is 65%, while BJP is 16% and the front left 12%.
The Bengal BJP on Monday was termed results in four city polls as “democratic taunting”.
Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari said that the results were a clear indication that no democratic process was followed in the poll.
“The process of democracy in West Bengal has become laughing.
City polls on four civil bodies are just an eye washing medicine, “Adhikari said.
TMC registered a victory in 4 city bodies
