The Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) has won 27 out of the 45 seats in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) elections in West Bengal’s Darjeeling.
Anit Thapa’s BGPM sweeps the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration polls in Bengal (File image)
The Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) has won 27 out of the 45 seats in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) elections in West Bengal’s Darjeeling. The newly-formed Hamro event has won eight seats.
The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has grabbed 5 seats in the GTA elections, whereas the Independents maintain emerged victorious on 5 seats.
Right here’s the vital time that the TMC has managed to take grasp of any seat in GTA.
In the meantime, the exhibits that the Left occasions had been cornered in Siliguri subdivision council elections. The Trinamool Congress dominated in the Panchayats and Panchayat Samiti seats.
Trinamool won 8 out of 9 seats. While the BJP bagged 1 seat in Mahakuma parisadh. Congress and CPIM got no seats. Earlier this, Parishad became owned by Left. Right here’s for the vital time TMC has managed to take grasp of on these seats.
Counting of votes for four wards of Panihati, Bhatpara, South Dumdum and Dumdum municipalities additionally took field in Barrackpore administrative building.
Trinamool candidate Kankalata Das of Bhatpara municipality won by 955 votes. Dumdum’s Trinamool candidate Tapas Roy won by 2,848 votes. TMC won in both seats of ward quantity 8 of Panihati and ward quantity 29 of South Dumdum municipality.
Bypolls were held in ward 8 of Panihati municipality as the newly elected councilor of the ruling Trinamool Congress became killed about a months back. TMC candidate Meenakshi Dutta has won in Panihati Municipality’s ward quantity 8 by a margin of 2264 votes. Meenakshi, wife of slain councilor Anupam Dutt, devoted her victory to her gradual husband.
TMC candidate Banasree Chattopadhyay won in ward quantity 29 of South Dumdum by 928 votes.
In Panihati, Bhatpara and South Dumdum BJP has come third in the civic physique polls. In the meantime, the CPIM has bagged one civic physique ward in Chandannagar municipality, which is essentially dominated by Trinamool. CPIM’s Ashok Gangopadhyay won by 130 votes in ward quantity 16 of Chandannagar.
Congress has retained its seat in the Jhalda bypoll. Mithun Kandu, nephew of slain Congress councilor Tapan Kandu, won the by-election in ward quantity 2 of Jhalda municipality by a margin of 6 votes.
