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Sreerampur Lok Sabha constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates

Senior BJP leader Kalyan Banerjee in the fray

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Sreerampore Lok Sabha constituency located in Hooghly and Howrah districts of West Bengal is one of the high-profile seats in the state. Its MP is top TMC leader and party's legal face Kalyan Banerjee. Kalyan Banerjee who is a two-time MP from Sreerampore is up against Tirthankar Roy of TMC, Debajit Sarkar of BJP and Debabrata Biswas of Congress. In the last election, Kayan won against CPIM's Tirthankar by a margin of 1.52 lakh votes. BJP's Bappi Lahiri came third. This time, Kalyan Banerjee is looking to increase the target and has used tollywood stars to campaign here. Mamata Banerjee has also campaigned extensively for him touting the several state government develop projects as proof of what TMC has done for Sreerampur. 

Historically, since 1996 Sreerampur has always voted anti-Left except in 2004, when TMC had a shocker election winning just one seat across the state. Akbar Ali Khondkar of TMC won the seat twice after inception of the party in 1998 and 1999 LS poll. In all, CPI(M) have won the seat six-times, TMC on four occasions and  Congress have emerged victorious four times. 
The assembly segments under Sreerampur are Jagatballavpur, Domjur, Uttarpara, Sreerampur, Champdani, Chanditala and Jangipara. Sreerampur goes to polls on May 6. 

Elections for 42 seats in West Bengal are taking place in seven phases. In 2014, TMC got 34, Congress 4 and BJP and CPI(M) won two seats each in the state.  

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