Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad Elections: The Left's Last Citadel Falls

DEBAYAN DUTTA, The Quint, 29 Jun 2022 : The last standing citadel of the Left front which was the Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad (sub-division) has fallen. With this, the Left does not run any more governing bodies in the state. TMC won 320 out of 462 seats while the BJP is a distant second with only 86 seats.

Celebrations in the Trinamool camp after sweeping the polls: (Photo: AITC)

Congress won 21 seats and the Left Front in 15 seats.

In the 66 panchayat samiti seats that went to votes, Trinamool won 54 while BJP won 10. The Left front drew a blank. In the panchayat polls, TMC won 19 out of the 22 seats.

As the Trinamool enters North Bengal and the hills after years of trying, they are on course for almost complete domination of the state, in every governing body.

While the Left has been virtually wiped out from the electoral map of West Bengal, it seems that the Congress is meeting the same fate too.

What comes as a surprise is that the BJP, which had its strongest base in North Bengal and in the hills, is steadily declining, and they are not doing anything in their power to save themselves.

The recent demand of some BJP leaders for a separate state for North Bengal did not go down well with the public, and even the top brass had to hush them.