West Bengal Assembly polls | Samyukta Morcha reduced to a rubble
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The experiment of the Samyukta Morcha, the place the Left events together with the Congress allied with a get together headed by a Muslim peer, not solely proved counter-productive however reduced the Left and Congress to a rubble in West Bengal politics. The developments and outcomes of the West Bengal Assembly elections point out that the whole vote share of all of the constituents of the Samyukta Morcha has not even touched 8%. The CPI(M) vote share dropped under 5% as counting was below means. The Congress vote share slipped to lower than 3% in these elections.
Prominent candidates of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) like former Minister Asok Bhattacharya got here third within the electoral contest trailing behind the BJP and the Trinamool candidates from Siliguri, a constituency he had represented a number of instances. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Md. Salim, who contested from Chanditala in Hooghly, additionally suffered a comparable destiny trailing the Trinamool Congress candidate and the BJP nominee. Other distinguished Left Front candidates like chief of the Left legislature Party Sujan Chakraborty was additionally trailing from Jadavpur constituency. For the Congress, the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal ended its political clout over districts of Murshidabad and Malda. Most of the candidates of Left events and Congress misplaced their deposits. Even the younger candidates of the CPI(M), who created a lot of media consideration, failed to make a important mark.
The West Bengal Assembly elections for 2021 have been bipolar from the start. The Left and the Congress, which have been the primary Opposition until 2016, suffered a large political setback within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the place the Left Front vote share dropped to 7% and the Congress to 5.61%. In the 2016 Assembly polls, the Left Front had secured 25.69% of votes and the Congress 12.3% votes. The alliance had received 76 seats with the Congress successful 44 seats and the Left Front 32 seats.
The Muslim voters, as an alternative of placing their religion within the Samyukta Morcha, voted en masse for the Trinamool Congress. The solely exception was in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas the place chairman of the Indian Secular Front Naushad Siddique and brother of Furfura Sharif peer Abbas Siddique received the electoral contest. ISF was arrange solely months earlier than the elections and the Left and the Congress tying up with the get together had raised many eyebrows within the political circles.
One of the foremost emphasis of the Samyukta Morcha marketing campaign was reaching out to Muslims however voters from the minority neighborhood backed the Trinamool Congress to maintain the Bharatiya Janata Party away from the State. The Left had fielded a number of younger leaders too like Minakshi Mukherjee in Nandigram, Dipshita Dhar in Bally and Aishe Ghosh in Jamuria, however they too failed to make a mark.
Political observer and pshephologist Biswanath Chakraborty mentioned devoted voters of the Left events selected to help the Trinamool Congress as an alternative of voting for the Left parities and the Samyukta Morcha. “The Left supporters heeded what Dipankar Bhattacharya of the CPI(ML) had to say to support the Trinamool to resist the BJP than what State CPI(M) leaders like Surjya Kanta Mishra and Md. Salim said,” Professor Chakraborty mentioned.
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