Madarihat in North Bengal: As BJP bastion goes to TMC, former Union Minister Barla blames ‘overconfidence’

The BJP had won the spot successful 2021 with a borderline of 29,685 votes.

The Madarihat spot successful Alipurduar district, which was antecedently held by the BJP, fell vacant aft its MLA Manoj Tigga resigned, to go a Member of Parliament from Alipurduar, pursuing which bypoll was necessitated.

The bypolls connected November 13 were held successful six constituencies — Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, Taldangra, Sitai (SC), and Madarihat (ST) — pursuing the resignation of MLAs who had vacated their Assembly seats aft securing victories successful the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. There were a full of 7 candidates successful the fray to beryllium elected arsenic the adjacent Madarihat MLA.

Disappointed with the party’s performance, BJP person and erstwhile Union Minister of State John Barla said that “overconfidence” led to the loss. He emphasised the value of involving section leaders and knowing the crushed report, peculiarly successful regards to beverage plantation workers who felt neglected.

“It is the effect of implicit assurance and pride. Not involving anyone, not keeping immoderate interaction with the beverage plot leader. If you run everything from Kolkata it cannot enactment similar that. One should besides cognize the crushed report. Tea plantation workers were not fixed immoderate importance,” Barla claimed.

“Money and constabulary unit were each connected their side. Even past we gave a bully fight,” BJP person Manoj Tigga claimed.

BJP person Agnimitra Pal said, “Our workers are threatened successful that area. Under specified an environment, not galore wanted to actively participate. Also it is bypolls… People consciousness they cannot region the Mamata Banerjee authorities truthful what is the usage of voting?”

Before the bypolls, the Trinamool Congress authorities wide caput Kunal Ghosh had claimed that the effect would beryllium 6-0. According to sources successful the TMC, respective factors specified arsenic Cha Sundari, Lakshmi Bhandar scheme, ration system, schools, roads, drinking h2o and different authorities projects worked successful the party’s favour.

“Mamata Banerjee’s schemes and the BJP’s lies 1 aft different contributed to their loss. People person voted successful ample numbers successful favour of the TMC. Many assertion that it is bypolls truthful voters were little successful number, but it is not existent successful Bengal’s case. People person travel and voted successful favour of Mamata Banerjee for her improvement work,” said TMC person Jay Prakash Majumdar.

In the 2021 Assembly polls, the TMC had mislaid this spot by 29,000 votes. In the past Lok Sabha polls, the BJP was up successful Madarihat by conscionable 11,000 votes. The triumph borderline this clip has surpassed some the Assembly and Parliamentary elections.