Kolkata: For most TMC defectors, leaping sides backfired and in consequence have been both trailing or tasted defeat within the meeting polls. Many of those candidates have been rewarded by their new occasion with election tickets for switching allegiance.
However, a number of defectors, who joined the BJP, acquired the higher of their TMC rivals, together with Suvendu Adhikari who took the Nandigram seat by defeating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by a slender margin.
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Top defectors who misplaced to TMC
Among distinguished TMC turncoats who misplaced the battle have been former state minister Rajib Banerjee, ex-MLA from Singur Rabindranath Bhattacharya, actor Rudranil Ghosh and former Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakrabarty. Some of them joined BJP with a lot fanfare after being flown to the nationwide capital on a chartered flight.
Banerjee, who had defected to the BJP early this 12 months, didn’t make a hat-trick of win from Domjur constituency as he misplaced to TMCs Kalyan Ghosh by 42,620 votes.
Bhattacharya, who stop the TMC after being denied an election ticket, was defeated by the ruling occasion’s candidate from Singur, Becharam Manna by practically 26,000 votes. The BJP nominee was searching for re-election from the seat.
Singur in Hooghly district has been on India’s political map after a farmers’ stir compelled the exit of Tata’s small automotive venture and can be a constituency which together with Nandigram shook the foundations of the mighty 34-year-old Left Front regime and propelled TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee to energy in 2011.
Ghosh, who had joined the saffron camp not too long ago, tasted a crushing defeat to TMC’s heavyweight and minister Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay from Bhabanipur by over 28,000 votes.
Trailing after leaving TMC
Other defectors embody former TMC legislator from Bally Baishali Dalmiya and ex-Asansol Mayor Jitendra Tewari. A two-time former TMC MLA from Pandabeswar, who had additionally crossed over to the BJP earlier than the polls, was trailing the ruling occasion nominee from the seat, Narendranath Chakraborty.
Dalmiya, who was expelled from TMC for allegedly talking out towards the occasion’s management and had later joined the BJP, was additionally trailing behind Rana Chatterjee, a ruling occasion nominee from Bally.
Prabir Kumar Ghosal, an ex-TMC MLA, who was searching for re-election from Uttarpara on a BJP ticket this time, additionally misplaced to Kanchan Mallick of the ruling occasion by over 35,000 votes.
Another former TMC MLA Silbhadra Datta, who joined the saffron occasion additionally tasted defeat from Khardah. Former TMC legislator Dipak Halder, who was nominated by the saffron occasion from Diamond Harbour, was trailing Pannalal Halder of the ruling occasion.
While Sabyasachi Dutta, who had joined the BJP in October 2019, misplaced to Sujit Bose from the Bidhanagar seat by 7,997 votes. However, BJP’s vice chairman Mukul Roy who had switched facet in 2017, emerged victorious from Krishnanagar Uttar, defeating actress-turned- TMC nominee Koushani Mukherjee by a margin of 35,000 votes.
Just a number of months in the past, Mihir Goswami gained the Natabari seat by defeating Rabindranath Ghosh of TMC.
