West Bengal Election Results 2024 highlights: TMC's stellar performance as INDIA shines

Mamata Banerjee said she was not aware of the INDIA meeting in New Delhi on June 5. She said she would send Abhishek Banerjee to attend the meeting.

“I stand with all INDIA parties and other non-aligned parties. Don't go to the BJP for money or in the fear of the ED, CBI,” Mamata Banerjee said.

Mamata Banerjee said she has congratulated all winning parties including TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and also Rahul Gandhi. “But there has been no communication yet from the Congress. Probably they are busy now,” Mamata Banerjee said.

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Rachana Banerjee declared winner from Hooghly constituency against sitting BJP MP Locket Chatterjee. TMC Sreerampur candidate Kalyan Banerjee has also been declared winner.

Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar, Kirti Azad from Bardhaman-Durgapur and Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol were declared winners.

This is the highest in West Bengal's history. CPI-M's Anil Basu won the Arambagh seat in Hooghly district by 4,00,000 plus votes a couple of times.

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The alleged incidents of sexual atrocities on the local women, and land-grab in Sandeshkhali, one of the seven assembly segments of Basirhat, seem to have failed to deliver the BJP the coveted win from the seat.

For the voters at large of the Basirhat constituency, having one of West Bengal's most porous stretches of international border with Bangladesh, the issues of Sandeshkhali were "very local" and did not appeal to them, poll experts felt.

A jubilant Haji Nurul, who was nominated by the TMC instead of sitting MP-actor Nusrat Jahan, attributed his seemingly assured victory to a win of party supremo Mamata Banerjee.

"I was confident of a win. Whatever was spoken about Sandeshkhali was a lie and people never believed them. The videotapes proved that BJP's hand was behind it... It was a dirty conspiracy by the BJP and people gave them a befitting reply," he told PTI.

Both are former cricketers and now both are going to earn the moniker of 'giant slayers'. Yusuf Pathan is leading from Baharampur ahead of Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

Trinamool's Kirti Azad is leading from Burdwan-Durgapur constituency against BJP's Dilip Ghosh. If Dilip Ghosh loses this election, it will be be BJP veteran's first electoral defeat.

Diamond Harbour is always considered a safe seat for Trinamool general secretary, Mamata Banerjee'e nephew Abhishek. As counting proceeded, Abhishek was on his way to make a record win by a margin of over 6 lakh votes.

The Congress is leading in only one seat in West Bengal but that is not Adhir Chowdhury. The Congress leader is Isha Khan Choudhury from Maldaha Dakshin.

Two out of three Union ministers from West Bengal in the outgoing central government were trailing, albeit not by a large number, as counting for the general elections progressed on Tuesday, as per the Election Commission data.

BJP candidate Subhas Sarkar, Union Minister of State for Education, was trailing in the Bankura constituency to his nearest rival Arup Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress by 14,932 votes.

The saffron party's Nisith Pramanik, the Union Minister of State for Home, was trailing by 7,339 votes to his nearest rival Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia of the TMC in the Cooch Behar seat.

Union Minister of State Shantanu Thakur, BJP's candidate from Bangaon, was leading by 34,464 votes over TMC's Biswajit Das in the constituency.

The Trinamool Congress reacted to the trends and said it was on the expected lines that people have voted against the BJP. “The results are a reflection of people’s faith in the pro-people policies of the TMC government led by our supremo Mamata Banerjee. The people through this decisive mandate against the BJP have defeated the anti-Bengal forces. The results have also proved that the exit polls were a farce by the pro-BJP media,” TMC spokesperson Santanu Sen said.

TMC candidate Abhishek Banerjee was leading over his nearest rival Abhijit Das of the BJP by 1,15,933 votes in Diamond Harbour constituency, as per latest trends available.

Abhishek Banerjee, the TMC national general secretary and nephew of party supremo Mamata Banerjee, is a two-time MP from the seat.

Trinamool Congress is leading in 32 seats and the BJP in 9 seats. The main takeaways from the trends so far are

1. TMC's performance is better in 2024 than in 2019.
2. BJP won 18 seats in 2019 but in 2024 is holding the fort in 9 seats.
3. The Left, despite fielding new faces, did not manage a comeback in this election.

Proving the exit polls wrong, the Trinamool surged ahead of the BJP and is now leading in 24 seats. The BJP is leading in seven and the Congress in three seats.

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"I am going to win. BJP is going to win and PM Modi will come to Basirhat. The future of Sandeshkhali is bright. BJP is leading in all seats. The environment has been peaceful here since morning. The Central forces are here, local police remain outside...Lotus has bloomed in Basirhat," Sandeshkhali survivor BJP's candidate Rekha Patra said.

Exit poll predictions which gave BJP an edge over the Trinamool are being questioned as the first rounds of the counting show the BJP and the Trinamool are fighting closely

Among the high-profile candidates who took the early lead during counting of ballots were TMC MPs Abhishek Banerjee, Mahua Moitra, Sudip Banerjee, Kalyan Banerjee, Satabdi Roy. The BJP candidates who were leading were former judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, MP Saumitra Khan, party’s state president Sukanta Majumdar. While Congress MP was leading in Berhampore, CPIM state secretary Md Salim was leading was Murshidabad.

A neck and neck contest was going on between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its arch rival the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, where counting of ballots started around 8 am on Tuesday. While the TMC was leading in 18 seats the BJP was leading in 21 seats and the Congress in two seats. Experts, however, said that the trends which come in after counting of ballots were very preliminary and change almost every minute.