Kolkata: Trinamool Congress, the ruling party in West Bengal, is slated for a landslide victory in the 108 municipalities in the state that went for polls on Sunday, February 28, 2022. The counting started at 8 am on Wednesday and till 12.30 pm, the verdict was clearly in favor of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Till the time mentioned out of the 108 municipalities, Trinamool Congress has either won or were ahead with a huge majority in 103 municipalities. While both BJP and Congress could not open their scores in a single municipality, the Left Front managed to bag victory in Taherpur municipality in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district. The local hill party, Hamro Party managed to bag victory in the Darjeeling municipality in North Bengal. The results for three municipalities were hung as for the latest trends of results.
The most surprising was the flop show of BJP, as the principal opposition party in the state. Even in the belts and pockets of the state where BJP was strong even in the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls. Trinamool Congress has swept this time. The surprising factor was the resurrection of the Left as the principal opposition party in most of these municipalities. In most municipalities. the Left front emerged in the second position, leaving BJP in the third position.
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BJP dubbed the poll process as a "mockery of democracy" and called a 12-hour shutdown on Monday to protest the violence. The TMC rubbished the allegations as baseless and said that opposition parties are trying to find excuses sensing defeat. The Trinamool Congress leadership described the landslide victory as overwhelming public support for the state's ruling party. Opposition parties, however, described the results as the outcome of massive election malpractices, rigging and poll-related violence on the election day.
