Falta assembly constituency

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Debangshu Panda won the re-poll in Falta by a huge margin of 1,09,021 votes, defeating Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sambhu Nath Kurmi. During this time, All India Trinamool Congress Candidate Jahangir Khan, who withdrew from active campaigning but remained on the ballot, finished fourth with 7,783 votes.In the recent assembly elections, TMC gave the ticket to Jahangir Khan, who had announced just two days before the polls that he was ‘withdrawing’. However, he remained on the ballot as per Election Commission rules, according to which the date for formal withdrawal had already passed.Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari hailed the victory and took a dig at TMC as the BJP took a lead of over 1 lakh votes just before the results were formally declared. He said, “The infamous ‘Diamond Harbour’ model has turned into ‘Trinamool’s loss-bar’ model!!! First of all, I salute the people of Falta – the divine population – who sent Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Shri Debangshu Pandya to the Assembly in the by-election for Falta constituency with an overwhelming mandate.”Thanking the voters for making his ‘plea’ come true, he said, “I am especially grateful to the voters of Falta; I had appealed to them to give victory to the BJP candidate by a margin of one lakh votes, and the victory margin has crossed one lakh eight thousand. Through further development, we will repay this debt of yours. We are committed to building a golden Falta. A party devoid of principles or ideals, which had turned into a mafia syndicate, “His skeletal condition has been exposed.” Upon losing power. By misusing the state machinery, it looted public funds, appropriated people’s hard-earned money, and through a culture of syndicates and threats, its leaders treated the country as their personal fiefdom.Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of three-time Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and no. Number 2 in her All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), she represents Diamond Harbor in the Lok Sabha. This made Falta a high-risk seat for the party.The Election Commission ordered a full re-poll at all 285 polling stations in the Falta constituency on 21 May, citing “serious electoral crimes and subversion of the democratic process” during the 29 April voting. The results will be declared after re-polling. On 24th May.Falta is one of the 294 assembly constituencies of West Bengal. It is a general category seat and is located in South 24 Parganas district. The constituency is part of the Diamond Harbor parliamentary constituency, which consists of seven assembly constituencies.The constituency saw two major controversies: BJP’s lotus symbol was found stuck on EVMs at several booths, prompting the Election Commission of India to order an investigation; And the clash between UP-cadre IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma, appointed as a police observer by the election panel, and local powerful leader Trinamool’s Khan.In the 2021 assembly elections, AITC’s Shankar Kumar Naskar won the seat, making it a hat-trick of wins for the party. Before Naskar, Trinamool’s Tamonash Ghosh was the winning candidate in both the 2011 and 2016 elections.In 2021, AITC secured 55.61% vote share, while BJP, which fielded Bidhan Parui, got 36.75% votes.