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Bengal: Trinamool ahead in 24 LS seats, BJP 17 (3rd Lead)

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Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress led in 24 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state while the BJP made stunning inroads, with an unprecedented saffron surge in 17 constituencies after three hours of counting on Thursday.

The Congress led in one constituency while the Left, which had ruled the state for decades, faced a washout.

Union Ministers Babul Supriyo and S.S. Alhuwalia were ahead in Asansol and Burdwan-Durgapur by establishing a substantial margin of votes.

According to the Election Commission, Supriyo was leading over his nearest rival Moon Moon Sen of Trinamool Congress by more than 50,000 votes.

Alhuwalia, the outgoing MP of Bengal’s Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat, was ahead of Trinamool’s sitting MP Mamtaz Sanghamita in Burwan-Durgapur.

In Malda, a traditional Congress bastion, the BJP was on top in both the parliamentary seats.

In Malda South, BJP’s Sreerupa Mitra Chaudury was ahead of veteran Congress leader Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury while in Malda North saffron party candidate Khagen Murmu, who recently defected from the CPI-M, led over Trinamool’s Mausam Noor.

Indeed, the BJP came out with a stunning performance in constituencies with substantial minority votes and border areas in a sign that it has benefitted from religious polarization.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool ealand (May 25) and Bangladesh (May 28).

On Wednesday, the middle-order batsman, who failed to find a spot in the 15-member World Cup squad, had a memorable debut at the County Championship as he scored a patient hundred for Hampshire.

Rahane, who had managed just 10 runs in the first innings of the Division One game against Nottinghamshire, smashed 119 runs off 197 balls in the second innings on Day Three of the match. His innings was studded with 14 glorious boundaries.

Speaking about his game plan, the 30-year-old said he kept it simple and just wanted to spend time in the middle.

“I am really happy, especially the way I batted. I was really confident and wanted to make it count. My plan was to just bat, bat and bat. I wasn’t thinking about runs. I just wanted to be there and take my team to a good position and that really worked this morning,” Rahane said.

His innings was filled with fluent timing. He even faced the likes of England’s senior pacer, Stuart Broad and Jake Ball but never looked out of comfort. He showed great discipline and played the ball on its merit.

“That (discipline) is really important in England. I have been talking to my teammates about the batting plans and that really worked for me. I just had a simple game plan-wanted to play close to my body and as late as possible,” he added.

Rahane became the third Indian cricketer to score a century on debut in the County Championship. Piyush Chawla (for Sussex in 2009) and Murali Vijay (for Essex in 2018) are the two others in this list.

–IANS

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