Mamata's Bhabanipur loss signals TMC's wider loss
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Mamata Banerjee, who came to power in 2011 on the back of the Singur and Nandigram movements, lost the Bhabanipur constituency. The BJP's Suvendu Adhikari secured victory, drawing parallels to their previous contest in Nandigram.
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who came to power in 2011, riding on people's support and the Singur and Nandigram movement, lost from Bhabanipur constituency by 15,105 votes.
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"I thank the people of Bhabanipur for voting for me and ensuring a margin of over 15,000 votes," BJP's Suvendu Adhikari said after his victory in the high-profile constituency, and after holding the winning certificate. The result is a virtual "action replay" of the 2021 Nandigram battle.
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Banerjee's anti-SIR narrative, an antagonised Muslim vote bank and appeasement politics, the threat to Muslims that BJP will send them to detention camps if they don't vote for TMC boomeranged.
This coupled with corruption, anti-incumbency, the job scam in SSC where 26,000 teachers lost jobs, the multi-crore ration scam, the coal and sand scams and a rejigged administrative mechanism, which was reshuffled by ECI ahead of elections, went against Trinamool Congress. Muslim voters were antagonised due to the failed promises of Mamata Banerjee on stopping SIR, Waqf and the OBC list.
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Banerjee had made the ECI a key feature in the polls, clubbing it with BJP and attacked SIR during her poll campaign. But ECI conducted the Bengal polls without a single poll-related death, with stringent action against musclemen and goons.
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ECI started building confidence among electors with the deployment of CAPF a month ahead of the polls. At least 1,000 police and administration staff were reshuffled in two months. All these measures were taken to ensure free and fair polls and this facilitated the people to come out in large numbers and vote. All these factors went against the Trinamool.
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- What are the specific implications of this loss for Mamata Banerjee's political future?
- How will this election result impact the Trinamool Congress's standing in West Bengal?
- What are the long-term consequences for the BJP's political map in eastern India?
