BJP will win South Malda seat by large margin, says Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar
Apr 29, 2024
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 29 : West Bengal BJP chief and Lok Sabha candidate from Balurghat, Sukanta Majumdar exuded confidence that BJP will win the South Malda seat with a great margin.
"We won almost all seats in North Bengal last time, except South Malda. This time we will win all the seats and we will win the Malda South seat with a great margin. Here, the BJP will win 100 per cent in North Bengal," he told ANI on Sunday.
Launching a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress he said, "The public is calling Mamata Banerjee 'chor' 'chor' wherever she is going. On the other hand, PM Modi has been the prime minister of our country for many years but no one has raised fingers against him."
"People accused Mamata Banerjee's family of owning 35 plots in Kalighat. Neither TMC nor her family has commented regarding this, hence it is clear that they are the owners of these plots...," Majumdar further said.
South Malda will vote on May 7 in the third phase.
BJP has fielded Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury from South Malda against TMC's Shanawaz Ali Rehan and Congress' Isha Khan Choudhury.
Malda South Lok Sabha constituency consists of seven assembly segments Manikcha, English Bazar, Mothabar, Sujapur, Baishnab Nagar, Farakka, Samserganj.
West Bengal, which sends 42 MPs, to Parliament, is voting in all seven phases. Voting for phases one and two was held on April 19 and April 26, respectively. Polling for the remaining parliamentary constituencies will be conducted on May 4, May 13, May 20, May 25, and June 1. The counting of votes will be done on June 4.
Incumbent MP from South Malda and Congress leader Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury (Dalu) has been winning the seat since 2009, but over the years the vote base has been narrowing. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls Abu Hasem's victory margin over Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury was just 0.6 percent.
In most of the constituencies in the state, the main fight is between the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP.
Though the TMC is part of the INDIA bloc, it does not have a seat-sharing arrangement with the other parties in the alliance, like Congress and the Left parties in the state.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC won 34 seats in the state, while the BJP had to settle for just 2 seats. The CPI (M) won 2 seats, while the Congress bagged 4.
However, the BJP came up with a much-improved showing in the 2019 polls, winning 18 seats against the TMC's 22. The Congress's tally dropped to just 2 seats, while the Left scored a blank.
