In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling TMC upped its tally by bagging 29 seats, while BJP candidates won from 12. The Congress, which had allied with the Left Front, was limited to one seat. Bhattacharya, who had contested from Jadavpur constituency, lost to TMC candidate and actor Saayoni Ghosh. He ended up at the third spot, behind BJP’s Anirban Ganguly, by polling 2,58,712 votes.

In an open letter posted on social media, Bhattacharya wrote that though the Congress-Left Front combine was able to break the TMC-BJP binary in last year’s civic and panchayat elections, the “wall” has gone up again.
“We managed to break the Trinamool-BJP binary in the last municipal and panchayat polls. That wall has gone up again in this vote. The RSS has a role in this question. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Trinamool-BJP communal binary should be broken again before the 2026 (Assembly) polls. We have to go from house to house and talk about life and livelihood,” Bhattacharya wrote.
He wrote that his party had created an “alternative narrative” to the TMC and BJP by highlighting issues of livelihood throughout its election campaign for the Lok Sabha polls. He also stated that the election results show that the BJP has “declined across the country”.
“We have tried to create an alternative narrative outside the traditional Trinamool-BJP trope by bringing up the issues of sustenance-bread-work throughout this election campaign. The results of the election show that the destructive BJP has declined across the country and across the state as well. It is certainly encouraging for us. We must continue to strive to become an alternative force to the TMC in the people.”

Quoting the words of revolutionary Bangladesh poet Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bhattacharya wrote: “Herechhi. Tobe haal chharini. Khub kothin loraite, moidane thakte eshechhi. Jitte shikhte esechhi. Ekhane kono shortcut nei. U-turn to ekebarei nei. (Defeated. But won’t give up. In this tough battle, have come to stay in the battlefield. I came here to learn how to win. There is no shortcut here. No U-turn at all.) Like poem of Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, “ar jai hok, polatok noi… (whatever may be… I won’t run away from the fight).”

He mentioned that in six out of seven Assembly segments in the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency, the Left Front’s vote share had increased since the 2021 polls. “In Bhangar, where we fought separately, both ours and ISF’s vote share decreased.”

Thanking his supporters and Congress workers, Bhattacharya said his party will try to win the confidence of those voters who didn’t vote for the CPI(M) in this election.

“Those who did not vote for us, we will try to win their confidence in the future. I will see this defeat as a political defeat. However, from here I, would also like to find elements of new enthusiasm.”

“Congress workers helped us in this election. Various political forces and individuals helped. Many people who are not associated with politics have also supported us in different ways. I thank everyone. Thanks to media workers, who brought the news of our campaign to the general public,” wrote Bhattacharya.

“There have been several incidents of violence against our party workers during and after the polling process. Police administration is partially active, not fully. It is natural to expect that those who win will be responsible and restrained. If not, the right to self-defense is enshrined in our country’s Constitution – none of us will forget that,” he wrote further.

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