Mamata breaches Red bastion

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee registered the highest victory margin among the winners with a margin of over 2,21,000 votes against her CPIM rival,Rabin Deb. In 2004,Mamata had won by a margin of 98,000 votes.

Banerjee said the results clearly showed that the people in the state had lost confidence in the CPIM-led government. The results are a sure signal for the TMC-Congress alliance to demand that the state assembly elections due in 2011 should be held earlier.

Though the CPIM leadership refused to go into the reasons for the shocking defeat,Biman Bose,politburo member and Left Front chairman,said the results were totally unexpected and that a Congress wave has affected the left citadel as well. We accept the peoples mandate. We will go back to the people and find out the reasons for such a debacle, said Bose.

In Tamluk Lok Sabha seat,which falls in the Nandigram assembly segment,sitting CPIM MP Lakshman Seth was routed by the Trinamool Congresss Subhendu Adhikary by a margin of over 1,73,000 votes. Similarly,the Trinamool won from Hooghly Lok Sabha seat,under which falls the Singur assembly segment.

The Trinamool wiped out the Left from 10 of 19 districts in the state.