Falta Assembly Election Result: BJP's Debangshu Panda registers historic win with over 1 lakh votes
Tension ran high in the constituency since the April 29 polling, when complaints emerged from multiple booths alleging that perfume-like substances and adhesive tapes had been applied to EVMs.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and Abhishek Banerjee
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday registered a massive victory in the Falta assembly constituency, which was considered to be a bastion of Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC). BJP candidate Debangshu Panda received 1,49,666 votes to win this seat, while Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sambhu Nath Kurmi was a distant second with 40,645 votes.
The repoll in all 285 booths of the constituency was conducted on May 21 after voting in the seat in South 24 Parganas district in the second phase of the Assembly elections on April 29 was countermanded following allegations of EVM tampering and irregularities.
"The counting is progressing peacefully. Adequate security arrangements have been made at the counting centre," a poll panel official said. The repoll saw more than 87 per cent of the 2.36 lakh electors turning up to vote. The Election Commission had doubled security arrangements for the repoll, deploying around 35 companies of central forces across the constituency to ensure the smooth conduct of voting.
Falta Assembly Election Result LIVE:
- BJP's Debangshu Panda leads by over 34,000 votes after 9 rounds
- Re-election result of Falta constituency after 7 Rounds1. Debangshu Panda (BJP) - 44792 votes
2. Sambhu nath kurmi (CPM) - 18453 votes
- BJP's Debnagshi Panda leads Falta repolling count with over 15000 votes after round one; TMC's Jahangir Khan is fourth with 210. Result expected by 1 pm.
- Falta Assembly constituency vote count started at 8 am on 24 May; TMC agents absent as repolling after April malpractice saw 88%+ turnout. Result expected by 1 pm.
Although officially six candidates are in the fray for the seat, Trinamool Congress nominee Jahangir Khan, a couple of days before the repoll, announced that he would not contest, a decision the party described as his personal.
Tension ran high in the constituency since the April 29 polling, when complaints emerged from multiple booths alleging that perfume-like substances and adhesive tapes had been applied to EVMs.
Subsequent scrutiny also revealed alleged attempts to tamper with footage captured by web cameras installed at several polling stations, raising questions over the role of booth-level officers, presiding officers, polling personnel and election observers. Following the findings, the EC had ordered repolling in all booths.
(With PTI Inputs)
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