Express News Service
KOLKATA: The BJP’s performance in the West Bengal Assembly elections shows that the saffron camp trailed in 10 Lok Sabha seats out of 18 which it had won in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Though the party’s tally in the West Bengal state Assembly has gone up to 77 from 3, the performance in the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies out of 42 in Bengal is said to be a debacle that may prove costly in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The two Union ministers -- Debasree Chowdhury and Babul Supriyo -- failed to secure the lead in their constituencies of Raiganj and Asansol respectively. The party bagged seven Lok Sabha seats out of eight in north Bengal in 2019, but it was ahead of the TMC in four seats only in the just-concluded Assembly elections.