Kolkata: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tathagata Roy has attacked his own party. Roy tweeted, After yesterday's election results, I have been getting calls, 'Why aren't you doing anything else instead of just sitting there and tweeting?' Tathagata said, "Now there is a need to be straight. I am 77 years old and out of active politics, as per the norms of the BJP. I have conveyed my views to the authorities. My job is done.''
After 10 months of registering a landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday cleared the entire opposition in the municipal bodies as well. He has won 102 out of 107 municipalities in the state. TMC has also won the Kanthi municipality, which is considered the 'stronghold' of Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and MLA from Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari, while the newcomer 'Hamro Party' in the politics of the mountains of North Bengal has led Trinamool Congress, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and BJP. It has won over Darjeeling municipality.
Let us tell you that the BJP, which came out as the main opposition party in West Bengal by winning 77 seats in the assembly elections last year, could not even open its account in this election. Congress also failed to win a single seat. A total of 2,258 candidates of TMC, 2,021 of BJP, 30 of BSP and 99 of CPI were in the fray. Apart from this, 158 candidates were also from the Congress. 843 journalists had also tried their luck in the elections as independents.
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