BJP's Debangshu Panda wins Falta Assembly seat by over 1 lakh votes, breaking Trinamool Congress's long-held stronghold.

BJP swept the repoll to Bengal's Falta Assembly seat with a margin of more than one lakh votes in the constituency long seen as a TMC citadel

Kolkata: Counting of votes for the repoll to the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal began at 8 am on Sunday, May 24, amid tight security, an

Kolkata: BJP candidate Debangshu Panda secured a commanding lead of more than 9,000 votes over his nearest rival after the first round of counting in the

BJP candidate Debangshu Panda secured a resounding victory in the Falta repoll, defeating his nearest rival by 1.09 lakh votes, the highest margin in West Bengal Assembly polls and dealing another blow to the Trinamool Congress, which suffered a rout in the elections.

Kolkata: With 11 more rounds of counting for the repolling of Falta Assembly constituency in the South 24 Parganas of West Bengal yet to be completed, the

Kolkata: Counting of votes for the high-stakes repoll in West Bengal’s Falta Assembly constituency began at 8 am on Sunday. BJP candidate Debangshu Panda

Jahangir Khan, the TMC candidate who once compared himself to ‘Pushpa’ and later withdrew from the Falta Assembly repoll, still got 7,783 votes as BJP’s Debangshu Panda secured a landslide win in the constituency.

Falta Election Result Winner: While Panda secured a total of 1,49,666 votes, CPI(M) candidate Sambhunath Kurmi came in the second position, securing a total of 40,645 votes.  

Counting of votes for the repolling in the 144-Falta Legislative Assembly constituency in West Bengal began on Sunday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in Falta is Debangshu Panda, the CPI(M) candidate is Shambhu Kurmi, and the Congress candidate is Abdur Razzak. 

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