West Bengal Election Result 2021 Key Candidates: EC declares Suvendhu Adhikari as winner from Nandigram

West Bengal Election Result 2021- Key Candidates: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed a third term in the West Bengal State Assembly Elections 2021 on May 2, 2021. The CM, however , lost her battle against TMC turncoat Suvendhu Adhikari, who was contesting from his stronghold Nandigram constituency from the BJP ticket.

The Chief Minister had actually taken a major risk by switching her constituency this time and taking up the Nandigram seat, which though was a TMC stronghold but was known to be a strong area for the Adhikari family, who recently switched their allegiances to the BJP.

The West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 had many high-profile candidates including CM Mamata Banerjee, Suvendhu Adhikari, Mukul Roy, Babul Supriyo, Madan Mitra and Swapan Dasgupta etc. Lets have a detailed Look

Key Candidates in West Bengal

Mamata Banerjee: Mamata Banerjee has taken a huge risk this by leaving her current seat and choosing to fight from Nandigram, which was a TMC stronghold but held by the Adhikari family, which has switched over to the BJP. 

Suvendu Adhikari: Suvendhu Adhikari is the turncoat TMC MLA who crossed over to BJP along with some other TMC MLAs. He is taking on the CM from his family’s stronghold seat. 

Swapan Dasgupta: The BJP politician is taking on TMC’s Ramendu Sinharay from Tarakeshwar Assembly Constituency. 

Mukul Roy: BJP’s Mukul Roy is taking on TMC’s Koushani Mukherjee in the Krishnanagar Uttar assembly constituency.

Babul Supriyo: Union Minister Babul Supriyo is facing TMC MLA Aroop Biswas and CPI(M)’s Debdut Ghosh in the Tollygunge constituency. 

Madan Mitra: The TMC heavyweight Madan Mitra is contesting from Kamarhati constituency. He is pitted against BJP's Anindya Banerjee and CPI(M)'s Sayandeep Mitra in the seat.

Ashok Kumar Lahiri: The well-known economist has been pitted against TMC's  Sekhar Dasgupta in the Balurghat constituency. The RSP has fielded Sucheta Biswas. Lahiri is a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and has also served as the 12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. 

Chiranjeet Chakraborty: Actor Chiranjeet Chakraborty is fighting from Barasat constituency on behalf of TMC against BJP's Shankar Chatterjee and Forward Bloc candidate Sanjib Chattopadhyay.

Loknath Chatterjee: BJP's Loknath Chatterjee is currently trailing by 15842 votes in the Ballygungse seat (BJP), TMC's Subrata Mukherjee is leading from the seat. Subrata Mukherjee is currently a state cabinet minister.  

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