After registering a lead of over 30 seats in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee held a press conference Kalighat. "These results have shown that Modi has lost all credibility and he should immediately resign," she said in the press conference.
As of now, 5 TMC candidates — Mahua Moitra, Shatrughan Sinha, Kirti Azad, Rachana Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee have been declared winners from Krishnanagar, Asansol and Bardhaman-Durgapur, Hooghly and Sreerampur respectively — have been declared winners.
One Congress candidate has also registered victory. As of now, Trinamool Congress is hoping to continue its dominance as it leads with 30 seats and BJP is trailing behind, as per the Election Commission trends.
As per the EC trends, out of the 42 seats, TMC is leading with 29 seats, followed by 12 seats for BJP and 1 for Congress. While ex-cricketer Yusuf Pathan was trailing behind earlier, he has now taken lead and Congress' Adhir Chowdhury is trailing by around 34,000 votes. TMC national general secretary and Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is leading from Diamond Harbour by a margin of over 6.9 lakh. Similarly, TMC's Mahua Moitra, who was earlier trailing in Krishnanagar, has now been declared winner, along with Asansol Lok Sabha candidate Shatrughan Sinha and Bardhaman-Durgapur candidate Kirti Azad.
West Bengal polling happened in 7 phases to elect 42 members of Parliament from the state, with the 7th phase on June 1. Due to this, Mamata skipped the INDIA bloc meeting. Senior leaders of the Congress, Samajwadi Party, CPI-M, CPI, DMK, JMM, AAP, RJD, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharad Pawar) met at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence on June 1 afternoon, while TMC and PDP skipped the meeting.
CPI(M)'s state secretary Mohammed Salim is trailing by a huge margin of 1.6 lakh votes to the Trinamool Congress' Abu Taher Khan in Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday, the data published by Election Commission said. Salim is one of the CPI(M)'s heavily banked upon candidates this elections in West Bengal, where the left Front could not win a single seat in the 2019.
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