Baharampur Lok Sabha Election Results: Yusuf Pathan Helps TMC Breach Adhir Chowdhury's Bastion
Chowdhury, who has won the seat five straight times, has been a bitter critic of Mamata Banerjee.
Over the past several elections, the All India Trinamool Congress tried every trick in its book to wrest Baharampur from Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, but to no avail. It finally took former cricketer Yusuf Pathan to crack the code and trounce the five-time MP in his own backyard.
Pathan defeated the Indian National Congress leader by a margin of 85,022 votes in the Baharampur seat, during the counting of the Lok Sabha election results on Tuesday. It is a huge win for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against her bête noire by breaching the state Congress president's fortress for the first time.
Pathan bagged approximately 5.25 lakh votes, while Chowdhury got 4.39 lakh votes. Nirmal Kumar Saha of the Bharatiya Janata Party finished in the third position, with 3.72 lakh votes in the minority-dominated seat, according to the Election Commission of India website.
In 2019, Chowdhury had polled 45.5% of the total votes and defeated the TMC's Apurba Sarkar by a margin of 80,696 votes. However, in the 2021 Assembly election, the TMC won six out of seven seats under the parliamentary constituency, while the BJP won one.
Chowdhury, who has won the seat five straight times, has been a bitter critic of Mamata Banerjee. The TMC had cited his repeated attacks against Banerjee as one of the reasons that it decided to go ahead alone in the state.
The seat went to polls in the fourth phase and recorded a turnout of 77.54%.
