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TC-BJP combine suffer humiliating defeat
Kolkata, May 14: The Trinamool Congress-BJP combine suffered a humiliating defeat in Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti at the hands of CPI(M)-led Left Front which made a clean sweep in 15 of the 17 Zilla Parishads in West Bengal`s Panchayat polls even as the Congress improved its performance.
The CPI(M)-led LF won 610 out of 713 seats capturing 15
Zilla Parishads. The Congress won in 69 seats, while TC-BJP
could win only 21. Twelve seats went to other smaller parties
and independents, while election was not held in one seat in
Jalpaiguri due to the death of a candidate.
The Front retained control in Nadia, North and South 24
Parganas, Burdwan, Howrah, Hooghly, Coochbehar, Purulia, east
and west Midnapore, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Bankura, north and
south Dinajpur Zilla Parishads.
The Left Front maintained its supremacy in the Panchayat
Samiti also bagging 5084 of the 6953 seats, results of which
were declared so far. The Samiti has a total seats of 8,500.
In the Panchayat Samiti also, congress left TC-BJP behind securing 920 seats against 810 captured by the combine.
Of the 15,910 Gram Panchayat seats declared so far, the
Left Front won 13,191 seats, of which about 6,000 were
uncontested. The congress won in 1314 seats, while TC-BJP
combine won 1030 seats. Others won in 375 seats.
Bureau Report