Kolkata: Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra is set to return to the Parliament after defeating BJP’s high-profile candidate, Amrita Roy, whom PM Narendra Modi had called up ahead of the elections.
“More than my own victory, I am happy that the evil force called BJP, led by a liar prime minister Modi, has lost. This is a vote against Modi. I just want to salute the people of Bengal.They have shown the nation, the might of the people,” said Moitra, who was expelled from Lok Sabha in Dec last year following cash-for-query allegations.
Minutes after her expulsion, Moitra, surrounded in solidarity by functionaries of the INDIA camp, including Congress’s Sonia Gandhi, stood on the steps of the New Parliament building and lashed out at BJP for “disregarding the due process” of natural justice and “abusing every tenet” of law in meting out her punishment. The 49-year-old MP had said she would fight BJP for the next 30 years inside and outside Parliament, in the gutter and on the streets to see the end of BJP.
On Tuesday, when the counting was on for the Lok Sabha elections, Moitra, wearing a pink cotton sari, made multiple rounds of the counting venues while coordinating with agents and party workers. She even hitched a ride on a party worker’s cycle to a counting centre.
Lok Sabha ElectionsAssembly ElectionsParty ViewAlliance View.cls-1, .cls-2, .cls-3 { fill: none; } .cls-1, .cls-4, .cls-5, .cls-6 { stroke-width: 0px; } .cls-2 { stroke: #b17979; stroke-miterlimit: 10; stroke-width: 1.2px; } .cls-2, .cls-3 { stroke-linecap: round; } .cls-7 { fill: #595959; font-family: Verdana, Verdana; font-size: 10px; } .cls-7, .cls-8, .cls-9, .cls-10, .cls-11, .cls-12 { isolation: isolate; } .cls-8 { fill: #000; font-family: ArialMT, Arial; } .cls-8, .cls-9, .cls-10 { font-size: 12px; } .cls-3 { stroke: #ccc; } .cls-4, .cls-9, .cls-10 { fill: #1a1a1a; } .cls-4, .cls-11 { display: none; } .cls-9, .cls-10 { font-family: Verdana-Bold, Verdana; font-weight: 700; } .cls-10 { letter-spacing: 0em; } .cls-6 { fill: #ccc; }Majority: 272543543Seats: 543 L + WNDA WONNDA293INDIA234OTH16View MapView DetailsSource: PvalueA CPM fief since 1971, BJP was the first to put a dent and win the Krishnanagar seat in 1999. CPM won it back in 2004 before Trinamool’s candidate, actor Tapas Paul, won twice in subsequent elections. In 2019, Moitra, also on a Trinamool ticket, won from Krishnanagar by 63,128 votes, defeating BJP’s Kalyan Choubey. This year, Moitra defeated Amrita Roy, a descendent of Raja Krishna Chandra Roy by 56,705 votes. Moitra secured 44.1% votes, Roy 40.1% and Left’s S M Sadi 12.6% votes.