Trinamool's Unfancied Win Against BJP Big Guns
The Daily Guardian|June 05, 2024
The Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal have thrown up unexpected results. While the Trinamool Congress has won 29 seats, the BJP managed to win 12, and the Congress got one seat. But the figures hid many embarrassments.
SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE
Trinamool's Unfancied Win Against BJP Big Guns

Well-known BJP leaders like Union Ministers of State Nisith Adhikari and Subhas Sarkar lost, as did former State BJP president Dilip Ghosh, former Union Minister of State Debasree Chaudhuri, and big names like S.S. Alhuwalia, Locket Chatterjee, BJP thinktank member Anirban Ganguly, Arjun Singh, Agnimitra Paul.

Sandeshkhali protestor and the BJP's candidate from Basirhat, Rekha Patra, who was called Shakti Swaroopa by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lost by a whooping margin of 332949 to Sk. Nurul Islam of the Trinamool.

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