Nine Lok Sabha constituencies in Kolkata, its nearby suburbs, and the Sundarbans are going to the polls in the last phase of elections in West Bengal, scheduled on June 1.
The region is considered a bastion of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and the State’s ruling party had won all the nine seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. In fact, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has never won eight of the nine seats, the only exception being Dum Dum, where BJP leader Tapan Sikdar won in the late 1990s.
As in the rest of the State, the TMC’s campaign was centred around the Chief Minister and Mr. Abhishek Banerjee. Ms. Banerjee has held roadshows in and around Kolkata, walking several kilometres on foot. For the BJP, the Prime Minister held several rallies, including one roadshow in north Kolkata.
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