Mamata Banerjee-led TMC steamrolls opposition in West Bengal civic polls, wins 102 municipalities
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Reaffirming its dominance among the urban voters, the Trinamool Congress bagged 1870 of the 2170 wards.
Kolkata: Riding on the momentum of its landslide victory in the assembly polls last year, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday stormed to power in 102 of the 108 municipalities of the state as the opposition BJP suffered a complete rout in the elections that were marred by allegations of widespread rigging.
Reaffirming its dominance among the urban voters, the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC bagged 1870 of the 2170 wards and 63.45 per cent of the total votes polled in a ringing endorsement for the party 10 months after its emphatic win in the state assembly polls, an official of the State Election Commission (SEC) said.
However, the biggest surprise of the polls was the Hamro party - a four-month-old political outfit - which bagged the Darjeeling civic body, worsting heavyweight hill parties like the GJM and the GNLF.
The BJP, which lost much of its steam after the assembly poll defeat, managed to win just 63 wards across the state by bagging 12.57 per cent of votes but failed to win a single civic body.
The CPI(M)-led Left Front, which had failed to open its account in the last assembly polls, won 55 wards securing 14.13 per cent votes and a civic body Taherpur Municipality in Nadia district.