Former JNU Students' Union (JNU) president and Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Aishe Ghosh has been defeated by Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Hareram Singh in Jamuaria assembly constituency.
The seat witnessed a three-cornered contest between Ghosh, Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Tapas Kumar Roy.
Ghosh ended up as the second runner-up, behind BJP's Roy. She lost by over 45,000 votes against Singh.
In other parts of Bengal as well, the Left Front along with ally Congress faced a rout. The coalition failed to win any constituency, as per the results and trends declared so far.
The Trinamool has succeeded in replicating its 2016 performance. The party is ahead in 215 constituencies, and the BJP was a distant second with leads in 75 seats, as per the trends which have emerged so far.
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The Jamuria seat since 2011 was held by CPI(M) leader Jahanara Khan. The party, however, decided to replace her with Ghosh, who was a key face of the anti-CAA-NRC protests in the state. The 26-year-old scholar is also one of the youngest candidates in this elections.
The BJP, which had fielded Roy, was confident of a victory as the Jamuria assembly segment, which falls under the the Asansol parliamentary seat, was swept by the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Apart from West Bengal, the counting of votes are also currently underway in the states of Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the Union territory of Puducherry.
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