
Anit Thapa party wins GTA election 2022
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ZeeNews, 29 June 2022: The final results of the elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) in West Bengal’s Darjeeling are out and the Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) has won 26 seats of the 45 seats. Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), on the other hand, has grabbed five seats while the Independents and the newly-formed Hamro party have won seven seats each.
This is for the first time that the TMC has managed to win a seat in the GTA, alongside the newly floated Hamro Party and the BGPM.
Polls to the GTA, the semi-autonomous council that governs the Darjeeling hills, were held on Sunday, after a decade marked by a series of changes in the region's political dynamics.
By-elections were also held in six wards of six municipalities of the state in which the TMC has won four, whereas the Congress and the CPI(M) have bagged one each.
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