In a massive setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, the incumbent Chief Minister and the party chief Mamata Banerjee lost to her rival and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Suvendu Adhikari by 15,05 votes in the Bhabanipur seat. It’s being considered a huge setback for the TMC as the seat was considered the party’s stronghold. The constituency has played a crucial role in Bengal’s political context over the past decade. In 2021, TMC veteran Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay won the seat after defeating BJP’s Rudranil Ghosh by 28,719 votes. He later resigned to enable Mamata to contest the bypoll, which she needed to remain Chief Minister after losing Nandigram to Adhikari in the same year.
Mamata Banerjee loses to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari by over 15,000 votes in Bhabanipur
