Trinamool wrests Junglemahal seats from BJP in Bengal
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Trinamool wrests Junglemahal seats from BJP in Bengal. Image Source: IANS News
Kolkata, May 3 : The Trinamool Congress has re-established its political control in Junglemahal area with the ruling party wresting out 26 of the 40 assembly seats spread across four districts in West Bengal. In the last Lok Sabha election, BJP managed to get a lead in 31 of these 40 assembly seats.
Junglemahal consists of 40 seats spread across four districts including Purulia Bankura, West Midnapore and Jhargram. There are 9 seats in Purulia, 12 seats in Bankura, 15 seats in West Midnapore and 4 seats in Jhargram, which was carved out of West Mindapore six years ago. The majority of these seats dominated by the tribal population are considered to be a forte of Trinamool Congress shifted loyalty and BJP managed to get 31 of the 40 seats allowing them to have four of the five Lok Sabha seats in these areas.
A day after Mamata Banerjee offered a government job to a family member of Maidul Islam Middya, the young DYFI leader who died on Monday allegedly of cop-inflicted injuries in Thursday’s Left march, Trinamul leader and minister Shyamal Santra met Maidul’s wife on Tuesday with the promise of a job.
Maidul, a resident of Chorkola village in Bankura’s Kotulpur, was the sole breadwinner for his mother, wife, two daughters and a niece.
Santra, also Bankura district president of Trinamul and Kotulpur MLA, said: “I gave some financial help and promised to stand by the family till Maidul’s wife (Aleya) got the job. His mother will get old age pension as soon as possible.”