West Bengal: Trinamool Congress wins civic body polls in all four municipal corporations

Kolkata: In Asansol democracy went for a toss after in ward 32 TMC's Asha Prasad and CPMs Tanusree Roy both bagged 2358 votes and after a lottery the TMC candidate was declared victorious.

Though the TMC candidate was officially declared ‘victorious’ but the CPM candidate also claimed that she had won and will continue working for the people of Asansol.

According to election Commission sources, the history of ‘toss’ was also there before through a 10 paisa coin but now certain changes are made in the toss and the name of two candidates are written in a piece of paper and the presiding officer took out a piece to announce the name of the winner.

For the first time ruling Trinamool Congress got control over Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) and got control once again in other three civic bodies.

In a clean victory in all the four towns TMC won 198 out of 226 wards.

Siliguri which was considered to be a strong citadel of the Left Front was gradually becoming a stronghold of the BJP, but this time in the civic polls sitting BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh who also contested the civic polls lost to TMC. CPI (M) heavyweight Ashok Bhattacharya also lost to TMC and out of 47 wards TMC won over 37 wards.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that more TMC wins, the leaders should become more grounded and work for the people.

“It is once again an overwhelming victory for Ma, Mati, and Manush. My heartiest congratulations to the people of Asansol, Bidhannagar, Siliguri and Chandanagore for having put their faith and confidence in All India Trinamool Congress candidates in the Municipal Corporation elections,” said Mamata also mentioning that her next aim is industrialization in the state.

Apart from Siliguri, Asansol which is another stronghold of BJP saw TMC winning 91 out of 106 wards. In Bidhannagar TMC won 39 out of 41 wards and in Chandannagar TMC got 31 out of 32 wards.

However, oppositions cried foul against the TMC for allegedly ‘looting vote’ and ‘capturing booths’ during the election on February 12.

Meanwhile, TMC won 91 wards in the upcoming 2246 wards in 108 civic polls scheduled on February 27.