West Bengal: Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury trails TMC’s Yusuf Pathan in Baharampur
Baharampur had been among the few remaining Congress strongholds in the state, with Chowdhury having represented the seat since 1999.
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Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was trailing behind the Trinamool Congress’s Yusuf Pathan by over 50,000 votes in West Bengal’s Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency.
As per the Election Commission figures at 4.20 pm, Pathan – a cricketer-turned-politician – had secured 56,541 votes while Chowdhury, the Congress’s leader in the Lok Sabha, had got 3,33,640 votes.
Baharampur had been among the few remaining Congress strongholds in West Bengal, with Chowdhury having represented the constituency continuously since 1999.
The Lok Sabha election in West Bengal, which has 42 seats, was held in seven phases. The polls in the state were marred by sporadic incidents of violence.
The state saw a three-cornered contest between the Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the Congress-Left alliance.
While the Trinamool Congress and the Congress contested against each other in the state, they are part of the Opposition INDIA bloc at the national level. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the largest party in the Left Front, is also part of the Opposition alliance.
The 2019 parliamentary election marked a tectonic shift in West Bengal politics, with the BJP emerging as the principal opposition to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, displacing the Left Front....
