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They all lost to Samajwadi Party candidates by significant margins of over 20,000 votes.

Police also said that a shop belonging to the daughter of a CPI(M) leader was allegedly ransacked in Durgapur.

Of the six Matua-dominated seats in Bengal, the BJP retained two and lost one. In Cooch Behar, sitting MP and Union Minister of State Nisith Praminik lost to TMC candidate Jagdish Chandra Basunia.

Meanwhile, former Medinipur MP and senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said the party needs to examine why it could not maintain its momentum of growth in Bengal after the last assembly polls.

Adhir Ranjan blamed the BJP’s “polarisation” for his defeat.

With Muslims forming over 50 per cent of the population, Basirhat has traditionally been a TMC bastion.

In the 2021 Assembly polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had lost the election from Nandigram by a margin of 1,956 votes.

Polling was held in nine Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal in the final phase.

TMC MP Sougata Roy, who is seeking re-election from the Dum Dum Lok Sabha seat for a fourth consecutive term, also rejected the exit poll predictions.

The TMC has fielded senior leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay from Kolkata Uttar.

A total of 1.63 crore voters - 83.19 lakh men, 80.20 lakh women, and 538 belonging to the third gender - are eligible to exercise their franchise in 17,470 polling stations on June 1.

In Jirangacha, on the other hand, the ruling party alleged that ISF workers allegedly attacked TMC workers, following which a Trinamool worker was hospitalised.

Jyoti Patel, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Vadodara Traffic Police, told The Indian Express that the traffic police had begun the process to identify the driver of the luxury bus to book a case of 'negligent driving'.

The cyclone, which made landfall around 9 pm in an area between Sagar Islands and Khepupara in neighbouring Bangladesh, left a trail of destruction in North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, and Howrah districts.

Kolkata Dakshin goes to the polls in the last and seventh phase on June 1.

A member of the ruling Awami League party in Bangladesh, Azim had arrived in India for medical treatment on May 12.

In addition to this, the anti-ragging committee of the university has also recommended that five other students, found to be involved in the case, be rusticated for four semesters. These five students are from the science and engineering departments.

The CM made the remarks while addressing a poll rally at Haroa in North 24 Parganas district

The TMC supremo also said her government would challenge the Calcutta High Court order to cancel all Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the state since 2010

In the Bishnupur seat, the BJP has reposed faith in its sitting MP Saumitra Khan to retain the seat.

Earlier, a case was lodged against three officials of the Raj Bhavan for allegedly wrongfully restraining the woman.