These 13 former TMC leaders got tickets from BJP – only four of them are leading

• A total of 34 Trinamool Congress leaders had left the party to join the rival Bharatiya Janata Party, but only 13 had got the ticket.
• This included incumbent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s top aide Suvendu Adhikari, who decided to contest her from the Nandigram constituency.
• Trinamool Congress took a massive lead against BJP ensuring Mamata Banerjee’s return as the Chief Minister for a third consecutive term.

Ahead of the state assembly elections in West Bengal, as many as 34 Trinamool Congress leaders had left the party to join the rival Bharatiya Janata Party. This included incumbent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s top aide Suvendu Adhikari, who decided to contest her from the Nandigram constituency.

Out of the 34 leaders, only 13 leaders had got tickets from BJP.

However, out of the 13 leaders who had moved away from TMC, only four have managed to secure a winning stance.

This included the very interesting fight for Nandigram, which ended with Suvendu Adhikari taking a lead in the constituency against Mamata Banerjee.

Constituency	Won	Party	Lost
Nandigram	Suvendu Adhikari	BJP	Mamata Banerjee
Krishnanagar North	Mukul Roy	BJP	Koushani Mukherjee
Domjur	Kalyan Ghosh	TMC	Rajib Banerjee
Bally	Dr Rana Chatterjee	TMC	Baishali Dalmiya
Diamond Harbour	Pannalal Halder	TMC	Dipak Halder
Singur	Becharam Manna	TMC	Rabindranath Bhattacharya
Ranaghat Uttar Paschim	Paratha Sarathi Chatterjee	BJP	Sankar Singha
Jagatdal	Somnath Shyam	TMC	Arindam Bhattacharya
Natabari	Rabindra Nath Ghosh	TMC	Mihir Goswami
Manteswar	Chowdhury Siddiquillah	TMC	Saikat Panja
Kalna	Deboprasad Bag	TMC	Biswajit Kundu
Pandabeswar	Jitendra Tiwari	BJP	Narendranath Chakroborty
Durgapur Purba	Pradip Mazumdar	TMC	Col. Diptansu Chaudhury

Trinamool Congress took a massive lead against BJP ensuring Mamata Banerjee her return as the Chief Minister for a third consecutive term.

There are 294 seats in the Bengal state assembly, the polling for which took place through eight phases between March 27 and April 29.


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