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The move is seen as an attempt by the party to try and drive home the point that it still has a steady support base in north Bengal, where it won seven of eight Lok Sabha seats in 2019
The loosening of purse strings captured the CM’s gratitude for the voters of the two districts that gave TMC 28 out of 34 seats in the recent Assembly polls
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 24, 2021 01:22 PM
West Bengal elections 2021
Snapshot
Created in 2011 by the Delimitation Commission, Chanchal has elected the Congressâ Asif Mehbub for the last two terms (2011 and 2016).
But Muslim alienation â owing to step-motherly treatment of the area by Trinamool and its selection of a Hindu candidate, is happening alongside a Hindu consolidation, which may work in favour of the BJP.
If one goes by conventional political wisdom, the BJP has no chance of winning Chanchal, an overwhelmingly rural Muslim-dominated Assembly constituency in the Muslim-majority Malda district of Bengal.
Nearly 66 per cent of the 2.37 lakh strong electorate of Chanchal are Muslims, and most of them are of Bangladeshi origin.