Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that the people of India had begun to reject the BJP which was proved by the results of the recently concluded general elections and the July 10 by-elections in several States.
Congratulating the people of Bengal for “presenting the Trinamool Congress all the four out of four Assembly seats,” Banerjee said, the “election results show that the people have begun to reject the BJP not only in Bengal but all over the country … while in Bengal the TMC has won all the four seats … I have information that except for two seats in Rajasthan and Madhya
Pradesh the BJP has lost in all the places where by-elections were held… so we can easily say that the trend is against the BJP in India.”
Her statement assumes importance in the wake of her talks with Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar of NCP and Akhilesh Yadav of SP in Mumbai where she went to attend the wedding ceremony of Anant Ambani the son of industrialist Mukesh Ambani.
Banerjee’s reactions came soon after Saturday’s election results showed that the TMC had won all the four Assembly seats of Raiganj in North Bengal, Ranaghat South in Nadia district, Bagda in North 24 Parganas and Maniktala in North Kolkata.
Out of the four seats the BJP had won three in 2021 Assembly elections. The saffron party had secured lead in Ranaghat and Bagda Assembly segments even in the recently concluded parliamentary elections While in Maniktala TMC’s Supti Pandey defeated BJP’s Kalyan Chaubey by a margin of over 62,312 votes party candidate Madhuparna Thakur wrested the Bagda seat defeating BJP’s Binay Kumar Biswas by a margin of 33,455 votes.
TMC’s Mukut Mani Adhikari defeated BJP’s Manoj Kumar Biswas by a margin of 39,048 votes at Ranaghat South while Raiganj Assembly seat was wrested by TMC’s Krishna Kalyani by a margin of 50,077 votes. He defeated BJP’s Manas Kumar Ghosh. Even in the 2024 general polls BJP had a lead of about 40,000 votes in Raiganj which was won by the TMC for the first time in its 26 years of existence.
Referring to the electoral success Banerjee said that “the victory has made us more responsible and we will undertake to work for the people with more conviction … the victory belongs not to the TMC but to the people of Bengal who have rejected the temptations of the BJP and ignored the pressure of the central agencies … this once again proves that disinformation campaigns and falsehood cannot win elections.”
Banerjee who on Saturday returned from Mumbai she met a number of national and international celebrities at the wedding ceremony and invited many of them to Kolkata. “I met many of them like Amitabh Bacchan ji, Javed Akhtar ji and Shabana Azmi ji and invited them to come to the Kolkata in the International Film Festival in December.”
Banerjee who held talks with Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar and Akhilesh Yadav would nothowever dwell on what transpired in the talks.