West Bengal Congress chief and Berhampore Lok Sabha seat candidate Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi started misleading people after realizing that the Lok Sabha election result of 2024 will not meet their expectations, ANI reported. .
“Before the start of the elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared victory for his party. But now things have changed and now he is nervous. He can see that the result will not be as expected, so he is resorting to other resources to mislead people. He has failed in many ways and has been exposed in front of people,” Chowdhury told ANI.
He also attacked the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, saying he wanted to expose the “bad deeds” of the government.
“There is an opposition to the West Bengal state government. I want to expose the bad actions of the government before the people,” he told ANI.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the sitting MP from Baharampur and in this 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he is pitted against former Team India cricketer Yusuf Pathan, who is contesting on the TMC ticket and BJP has fielded Nirmal Saha, a electoral district doctor.
Baharampur is one of the two Lok Sabha seats currently held by the Congress in the state. Chowdhury has won the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat since 1999.
Baharampur will go to polls on May 13 in Phase 4.
Chowdhury defeated TMC’s Apurba Sarkar from the constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with a margin of 80,696 votes.
Although still part of the opposition bloc (INDIA), the TMC decided to go it alone in Bengal and announced candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The Congress and the Left Front have a seat sharing agreement in the state under which the Left parties are contesting 30 seats and the Congress is contesting the remaining 12 seats.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC bagged the lion’s share of the electoral spoils in the state, with 34 seats, while the BJP had to be content with just two seats. The CPI(M) and the Congress won 2 and 4 seats, respectively.
However, in a surprise that few saw coming, the BJP upset the ruling TMC in the 2019 polls, winning with 18 seats. The ruling party in the state saw its numbers reduced to 22. The Congress came a modest third in the count with just 2 seats, while the Left Front was left with just one seat.
(With contributions from ANI)