TMC decimates opposition gains control of KMC for 3rd time in row
Kolkata Dec 21 PTI West Bengals ruling TMC gained control of the 144-member Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Tuesday clinching nearly 72 per cent of votes in a ringing endorsement for the party seven months after its landslide win in the state assembly polls Mamata Banerjees party won 134 seats to post a hat-trick of wins decimating a frail challenge from the opposition BJP the Left Front and the Congress officials said The BJP which lost much of its steam after the assembly poll defeat managed to win just three wards a senior State Election Commission official said The Congress and the CPIM-led Left Front bagged two wards each and Independents threeThe Left Front despite the mauling finished second to the TMC in terms of vote share Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee who has been trying to expand her partys footprint beyond her native state saw in the victory a leg-up for her national ambitions I want to dedicate this triumph to the people of the state and Maa Mati Manush mother land and people – TMC slogan for many years Several national parties like the BJP Congress and CPIM fought against us but they were all defeated This is a victory of a daughter of the soil This victory will show the way in national politics in days to come a visibly pleased Banerjee told reporters outside her residence The TMC had swept all the 16 assembly segments in the city in the assembly polls and the BJP was its main challenger The saffron party was second after the TMC in the assembly elections in all the wards constituting the 16 seats in terms of vote share Riding the momentum of its massive victory in the state polls and the recent UNESCO Intangible Heritage tag for Kolkatas Durga Puja the TMC bagged about three-fourths of the votes polled The TMC bagged 7195 per cent of the votes polled whereas the Left Front and the BJP bagged 1113 and 894 per cent each The Congress clinched 447 per cent of the votes and Independents 325 per cent The TMC got 22 per cent votes more than the 2015 KMC polls and increased its vote share by 11 per cent compared to the April-May assembly electionsThe BJP which garnered six per cent less votes compared to the last KMC polls saw a sharp decline of 20 per cent vote share compared to the assembly polls in the KMC area seven months back when it had bagged 29 per cent votes Although the Left lost the chief opposition status to BJP in the KMC in terms of number of seats won it got a bigger share of the electoral pie by way of votes than the saffron camp and bagged seven per cent more votes than what it had polled in the Assembly elections The Lefts vote share however was 13 per cent less than the last KMC pollsSeveral high profile candidates of the TMC including former Mayor Firhad Hakim former deputy mayor Atin Ghosh and others like Mala Roy Debashis Kumar Tarak Singh and Paresh Pal won by impressive margins The highest victory margin was recorded by TMC candidate Faiz Ahmed Khan in ward no 66 He won by a whopping 62045 votes followed by TMCs Ananya Banerjee who emerged victorious by a margin of 37661 votes from ward no 109 Kajari Banerjee the sister-in-law of Mamata Banerjee also won from ward no 73 BJPs sitting councillor and former deputy mayor Mina Devi Purohit won for the sixth consecutive time TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee also thanked the people of Kolkata for the huge mandate People of Kolkata have once again proven that politics of HATE VIOLENCE have NO PLACE in BENGAL I thank everyone for blessing us with such a huge mandate We are truly humbled and shall always remain committed in our goals towards YOUR BETTERMENT Thank you Kolkata he tweeted Senior party leader and former Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim described it as victory of the partys developmental work in the last decade in the city Our development efforts since 2010 was enough to ensure this victory Right now we will focus on improved civic services including environmental issues We will strive to make the city Covid-free in the near future Hakim a minister in the Banerjee cabinet said The BJP however termed the results a reflection of the reign of terror that the TMC has unleashed This result was expected because free and fair polls didnt take place in the absence of central forces BJP leader Shamik Bhattacharya said However senior CPIM leader Sujan Chakraborty saw a silver lining in the results as in most of the wards the Left has emerged the main opposition Had the elections been fair our results would have been much better he said Over 63 per cent of the nearly 405 lakh voters had exercised their franchise on Sunday The TMC has been in power in KMC since 2010 In the last KMC polls in 2015 it had won 124 seats whereas the Left Front bagged 13 The BJP and the Congress had secured five and two seats respectively The newly elected TMC councillors will meet on December 23 to elect the citys next mayor In the 145-year history of Kolkata Municipal Corporation nationalist leaders like Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Bidhan Chandra Roy also a former chief minister graced the mayors chair in pre-Independent India Hakim was the first Muslim mayor of the city since Independence PTI SUSSCH PNT RBT SK NN NN
Kolkata Dec 21 PTI West Bengals ruling TMC gained control of the 144-member Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Tuesday clinching nearly 72 per cent of votes in a ringing endorsement for the party seven months after its landslide win in the state assembly polls Mamata Banerjees party won 134 seats to post a hat-trick of wins decimating a frail challenge from the opposition BJP the Left Front and the Congress officials said The BJP which lost much of its steam after the assembly poll defeat managed to win just three wards a senior State Election Commission official said The Congress and the CPIM-led Left Front bagged two wards each and Independents threeThe Left Front despite the mauling finished second to the TMC in terms of vote share Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee who has been trying to expand her partys footprint beyond her native state saw in the victory a leg-up for her national ambitions I want to dedicate this triumph to the people of the state and Maa Mati Manush mother land and people – TMC slogan for many years Several national parties like the BJP Congress and CPIM fought against us but they were all defeated This is a victory of a daughter of the soil This victory will show the way in national politics in days to come a visibly pleased Banerjee told reporters outside her residence The TMC had swept all the 16 assembly segments in the city in the assembly polls and the BJP was its main challenger The saffron party was second after the TMC in the assembly elections in all the wards constituting the 16 seats in terms of vote share Riding the momentum of its massive victory in the state polls and the recent UNESCO Intangible Heritage tag for Kolkatas Durga Puja the TMC bagged about three-fourths of the votes polled The TMC bagged 7195 per cent of the votes polled whereas the Left Front and the BJP bagged 1113 and 894 per cent each The Congress clinched 447 per cent of the votes and Independents 325 per cent The TMC got 22 per cent votes more than the 2015 KMC polls and increased its vote share by 11 per cent compared to the April-May assembly electionsThe BJP which garnered six per cent less votes compared to the last KMC polls saw a sharp decline of 20 per cent vote share compared to the assembly polls in the KMC area seven months back when it had bagged 29 per cent votes Although the Left lost the chief opposition status to BJP in the KMC in terms of number of seats won it got a bigger share of the electoral pie by way of votes than the saffron camp and bagged seven per cent more votes than what it had polled in the Assembly elections The Lefts vote share however was 13 per cent less than the last KMC pollsSeveral high profile candidates of the TMC including former Mayor Firhad Hakim former deputy mayor Atin Ghosh and others like Mala Roy Debashis Kumar Tarak Singh and Paresh Pal won by impressive margins The highest victory margin was recorded by TMC candidate Faiz Ahmed Khan in ward no 66 He won by a whopping 62045 votes followed by TMCs Ananya Banerjee who emerged victorious by a margin of 37661 votes from ward no 109 Kajari Banerjee the sister-in-law of Mamata Banerjee also won from ward no 73 BJPs sitting councillor and former deputy mayor Mina Devi Purohit won for the sixth consecutive time TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee also thanked the people of Kolkata for the huge mandate People of Kolkata have once again proven that politics of HATE VIOLENCE have NO PLACE in BENGAL I thank everyone for blessing us with such a huge mandate We are truly humbled and shall always remain committed in our goals towards YOUR BETTERMENT Thank you Kolkata he tweeted Senior party leader and former Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim described it as victory of the partys developmental work in the last decade in the city Our development efforts since 2010 was enough to ensure this victory Right now we will focus on improved civic services including environmental issues We will strive to make the city Covid-free in the near future Hakim a minister in the Banerjee cabinet said The BJP however termed the results a reflection of the reign of terror that the TMC has unleashed This result was expected because free and fair polls didnt take place in the absence of central forces BJP leader Shamik Bhattacharya said However senior CPIM leader Sujan Chakraborty saw a silver lining in the results as in most of the wards the Left has emerged the main opposition Had the elections been fair our results would have been much better he said Over 63 per cent of the nearly 405 lakh voters had exercised their franchise on Sunday The TMC has been in power in KMC since 2010 In the last KMC polls in 2015 it had won 124 seats whereas the Left Front bagged 13 The BJP and the Congress had secured five and two seats respectively The newly elected TMC councillors will meet on December 23 to elect the citys next mayor In the 145-year history of Kolkata Municipal Corporation nationalist leaders like Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Bidhan Chandra Roy also a former chief minister graced the mayors chair in pre-Independent India Hakim was the first Muslim mayor of the city since Independence PTI SUSSCH PNT RBT SK NN NN
