Kolkata : West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday decimated the opposition to retain with thumping margins, two Lok Sabha and one assembly seat. The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool won the Cooch Behar and Tamluk Lok Sabha seats in Cooch Behar and East Midnapore districts and also scored a huge victory in the Monteswar assembly constituency of Burdwan district.
Trinamool nominee Partha Pratim Roy trounced his nearest rival, BJP’s Hem Chandra Burman, by over 4 lakh votes in Cooch Behar.
In Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency, Trinamool’s Dibyendu Adhikari defeated his nearest rival, Mandira Panda of the Communist Party of India-Marxist by over 4.97 lakh votes.
The Trinamool secured a massive victory in the Monteshwar assembly seat election with thier candidate Saikat Panja humbling his nearest rival, CPI-M’s M. Osman Goni, by 1.27 lakh plus votes.
The Congress came up with a pathetic show, with thier candidates forfeiting deposits in all the three seats.
An elated Banerjee described her party’s landslide victory as “people’s revolt” against the Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 currency notes and urged all political parties to start a wave of protests against the “financial emergency”.
The Cooch Behar seat fell vacant after the death of Trinamool’s Renuka Sinha while Tamluk went to the hustings as incumbent MP Suvendu Adhikari became a minister in the state government. Trinamool lawmaker Sajal Panja’s death caused the Monteshwar assembly by-poll.
