Trinamool Congress(TMC) Sweeps West Bengal Panchayat Polls Monday July 29,2013
Counting Begins for Bengal Panchayat Polls Monday July 29,2013
Up for grabs are 58,865 seats, for which
an impressive 84.56% of the 4.4 crore electorate cast their
franchise in five phases - July 11, 15, 19, 22 and 25
There are in all 755 Zilla Parishad (district councils)
constituencies spread over 17 Zilla Parishads, 8,864 Panchayat Samity
constituencies in 341 Panchayat Samities and 36,016 Gram Panchayat
constituencies in 3,354 Gram Panchayats
In the 2008 elections, the Left Frony won 13 zilla parishads, and the Congress and the TMC two eachCounting
for the West Bengal panchayat polls began on Monday, 329 counting
centres have been set up, which by Monday evening will
decide the fate of 1.69 lakh candidates with around 90,000 of them
women
Initial trends putting ruling TMC in the lead in most of the districts.Of the total 58,865 seats going to polls, 6,274 have been won uncontested, a majority by the Trinamool Congress.West
Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress has swept the five-phase panchayat
elections, including Left strongholds like Burdwan, Bankura and Purulia
In the 3-tier panchayat system, the zilla parishad is what controls
the district. Of the 17 districts that went to the polls, the Trinamool
has won zilla parishads in 13 districts, the Left has got one
(Jalpaiguri) and the Congress too, has scored one (Murshidabad). Two
other districts -- Malda and North Dinajpur -- are hung.
Out of 329 panchayat samitis, Trinamool grabbed 192, the Left, 64 and
the Congress 20. Independents and others got 22. Some results are still
pending.
In the lowest tier, the gram panchayat, the Trinamool
has won 1745 out of 3215 or a whopping 54 per cent. Its poorest showing
was in the Murshidabad (8), Malda (10) and North Dinajpur (10)
districts.
But the Trinamool won two north Bengal districts --
Cooch Behar and South Dinajpur -- and even gave a tough fight in
Jalpaiguri which was won by the Left.
The results suggest that
two and a half years of incumbency and controversies, including the
Saradha chit fund scam, have by and large failed to sway the rural
people's faith in the Mamata Banerjee government.
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