It was evident that the Trinamool Congress would retain number one spot in the polls, the bigger battle was to grab the second spot. The Left Front managed to reach the second spot by winning in 15 wards of the total 144 wards of KMC
The All India Trinamool Congress swept to victory in Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls and 91 other civic bodies on Tuesday. As soon as the counting for the elections entered its second leg, it became clear that the Trinamool Congress was all set to sweep the civic body polls – in what was being considered as a semi-final to the final battle of assembly polls scheduled for 2016.
In the 144-ward Kolkata Municipal Corporation, she retained the board by bagging as many as 114 wards. In the previous civic polls held in 2010, she bagged 95 wards (of the total 141, before delimitation), virtually dislodging the Left Front from power at the KMC. This apart, the party gained more ground by winning in 69 in municipalities of the total 91 civic boards. Of them are Haringhata, Baranagar, Gayeshpur, Kalyani, Barrackpore, Ghatal, Tamluk and several other municipalities.
The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee thanked the people for voting for her party. “I want to thank the people for voting for us, despite a natural calamity like an earthquake hit us. While opposition parties took a dig at us by claiming that our party engaged in rigging, but I want to tell them that the polls were free and fair,” said Banerjee.
While the outgoing mayor Sovan Chatterjee was declared a winner from ward number 131 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in the first hour of vote counting, the deputy mayor, Farzana Alam lost to a RSP candidate in ward 63 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
In ward 6 of Kachrapara Municipality, former Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy's son Subhrangshu Roy was declared a winner.
The only setback faced by the party came when its candidate, Satchidananda Banerjee, who is also the chairperson of the board at KMC, was defeated by a BJP candidate, Ashim Bose, in party supremo Mamata Banerjee’s own constituency.
During the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress’ candidate Subrata Bakshi won the Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency seat but trailed the BJP’s Tathagata Roy in Bhowanipore — Mamata Banerjee’s Assembly constituency. Bakshi trailed Roy by 185 votes.
It was evident that the Trinamool Congress would retain number one spot in the polls, the bigger battle was to grab the second spot. The Left Front managed to reach the second spot by winning in 15 wards of the total 144 wards of KMC. Besides this, the party managed to bag only five municipal boards in the other 91 civic bodies of the state – Dinhata, Tarekeshwar, Jangipur, Jiyaganj-Ajimganj and Daihat.
However, the BJP failed to make major inroads in the state and could not even bag one municipal board in the state, it won in seven wards of the KMC.
Congress also gave a tough fight by bagging five municipal boards in the state and winning in five wards of the KMC. Congress won in the – Beldanga, Murshidabad, Islampur, Kaliyaganj and Malda.
Out of the 91 municipal boards, 12 remains to be hung and the parties are likely to fight it out.
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