Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress of West Bengal has snatched Congress from the Noapara assembly seat on Thursday and retained the Uluberia parliamentary constituency. Keeping in view the good performance in the state, the BJP remained second in both constituencies.
However, Congress has emerged as the biggest defeat. The party came fourth and lost its deposit in both the seats. That In Uluberia seat, TMC’s Sajda Ahmed defeated the BJP’s Anupam Malik by 4.5 lakh votes.
The Congress, which had come forth in the 2014 parliament elections with 67,826 votes, could win only 23,168 votes.
In Noapara, Trinamool candidate Sunil Singh got 1, 01,729 votes while BJP candidate Sandip Banerjee got 38,711 votes. The Gargi Chatterjee of CPI (M) remained third with 35,497 votes.
The Sultan Ahmed, Trinamool parliamentarian and Madhusudan Ghose from Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency of Howrah district, and by-election of Congress legislator from Noapara assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district was necessary.