A day after defeating BJP heavyweight Dilip Ghosh by a margin of 1.38 lakh votes in Bardhaman–Durgapur, 1983 World Cup winner Kirti Azad — representing the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) — stated that him being a World Cup winner does ring a bell with the voters although the well-known win at Lord’s came to visit 40 years in the past.
“There’s a resonance due to being a part of the World Cup squad. It was the primary time an Indian staff had gained a cricket World Cup and other people do preserve that in thoughts. There you performed for the nation, right here you’re enjoying to your celebration and enjoying to your manifesto,” Azad informed The Indian Specific.
One other former India cricketer Yusuf Pathan, additionally representing TMC, additionally turned out to be a giant-killer in West Bengal defeating Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for the Baharampur seat.
The TMC gained 29 of the 42 seats in West Bengal due to the guarantees fulfilled by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Azad stated.
“No matter Didi promised, she has delivered. The best way the federal government has labored in Bengal… from the beginning of a kid to the demise of a person, there’s something for the poor, whereas it was empty rhetoric from the BJP and the prime minister,” Azad stated.
Ghosh is a former state BJP chief. He had gained the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Medinipur.
Bardhaman–Durgapur, as a Lok Sabha constituency, got here into existence in 2009 after a delimitation train and in 2019 the seat was gained by BJP’s SS Ahluwalia. The TMC gained the seat in 2014, whereas it had gone to the CPI(M) in 2009.
Speaking about points on which the election was fought in Bardhaman–Durgapur, Azad stated: “Principally, these are central authorities points associated to PSUs. A lot of them have shut down and the incumbent SS Ahluwalia had promised issues however by no means fulfilled them. So there have been issues galore. Persons are very indignant with that. The bigger message to the BJP is that false guarantees won’t work right here,” Azad stated.
Azad, now a four-time MP, had gained from Darbhanga thrice on a BJP ticket, with back-to-back wins in 2009 and 2014. He then moved to the Congress. Azad did not win from Dhanbad in 2019 on a Congress ticket. He joined the TMC in 2021.
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