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BSP, Mamata on upswing,
Mulayam’s kin trounced
WSN Network
LUCKNOW/NEW
DELHI/KOLKATA: Bypoll results in seven states in
India
have indicated a political mood that has shown better tidings for
Congress, continued preference for BSP in UP and rout of the Left in
West
Bengal.
Mulayam Singh
Yadav, who has enjoyed an uneasy relationship with the Congress for
the past decade-anda-half,was felled in his hometown, in the only
Lok Sabha bypoll, in Firozabad. Dimple Yadav, his daughter-in-law,
lost to Congress’s Raj Babbar by a margin of 85,343 votes. The BSP, too,
gained, having quietly secured seats from the opposition SP in the
Assembly.
West Bengal,
where 10 Assembly seats went to the polls, brought more bad news for
the Left. While their expectations were low, as only three of the 10
seats were held by them, Mamata Banerjee’s TMC had a field day
winning all the seven seats it contested. In Chhattisgarh,
the BJP won the single seat in Vaishali Nagar. In Himachal,
Congress' Vir Bhadra Singh lost ground to BJP.
The Left's
miserable electoral run continued as the Trinamool Congress, surging
ahead with a voteshare larger than it had in the Lok Sabha polls,
handed another humiliating defeat to Left Front major CPM which drew
a blank in the bypolls in
West Bengal.
In Kerala, the other Left citadel, the Congress won all three seats,
defeating the Communists in Ernakulam, Kannur and Alapuzha in direct
contests. Jubilant, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee told
reporters in
Delhi:
"The CPM should give up now and take rest.They are paying for the
sins they committed in the last 32 years."
Banerjee rubbed
it in, telling reporters that "Congress lost one seat but altogether
the alliance performed well". For the stunned CPM, the worst shock
was in Belgachia East where the late Subhas Chakraborty's wife
Ramola Chakraborty lost to Trinamool's Sujit Bose by a margin of
over 28,000 votes. CPM state secretary and politburo member Biman
Bose admitted "people have voted against us,we will have to analyse
the results."
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November 2009
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