'Modi lost credibility, must resign': Mamata on Lok Sabha poll results

Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost credibility and he should “immediately” step down.

“The Prime Minister has lost credibility, he should resign immediately because he had said that this time they would cross 400 seats,” she said.

“Even after causing so many atrocities, spending so much money, this arrogance of Modi ji and Amit Shah, INDIA has won and Modi has lost. They have even lost in Ayodhya,” said the TMC supremo.

West Bengal Election Results 2024  

Contrary to all predictions made by exit polls, the TMC has surged ahead in 29 out of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) struggled to secure double-digit leads, holding sway in only 12 seats, while the Congress managed to clinch just one seat, data released by the Election Commission (EC) showed.

If the current trends in favour of the TMC persist, the party is poised for its second-best electoral performance in the state, trailing behind its triumph in 2014 when it secured 34 seats.

As of 6 pm, the TMC had garnered 46 per cent of the votes, marking an increase from the 43 per cent it obtained in the 2019 elections.

 In the previous Lok Sabha elections, the TMC had secured victory in 22 seats, while the BJP had won 18, and the Congress managed to clinch two.

Despite an intense campaign spearheaded by prominent BJP figures, the party is projected to witness a decline of seven seats and a 2 per cent drop in vote share, having garnered 40 per cent of the votes in 2019.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) appears to be unable to secure any seat in the state, echoing its performance in 2019.

The Congress, which initially held the lead in Malda South, faced a setback as it fell behind in Baharampur, where West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is contesting for a sixth term. Chowdhury was trailing by a margin of 73,000 votes against TMC’s Yusuf Pathan.

TMC candidate and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee was leading in Diamond Harbour over his closest contender, BJP’s Abhijit Das, by an unprecedented margin of 707,360 votes, possibly marking the highest margin in Bengal in recent decades.

In Bolpur, sitting TMC MP Asit Mal was leading by a margin of 323,192 votes over BJP’s Piya Saha.

Despite high hopes for a strong showing in the Basirhat constituency, including Sandeshkhali, the BJP's candidate Rekha Patra was trailing behind TMC veteran Haji Nurul Islam by 280,480 votes.

TMC’s Hooghly candidate Rachana Banerjee was leading over BJP rival and sitting MP Locket Chatterjee by a margin of over 29,688 votes.

In Malda Dakshin, Congress candidate Isha Khan Choudhury was leading with 126,306 votes over her nearest BJP competitor, Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury.

In Jadavpur, TMC’s Sayani Ghosh was leading by over 104,816 votes over her closest BJP rival, Anirban Ganguly.

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