Hindi-speaking voters in Kolkata’s suburbs turn away from saffron party – Times of India

BJP’s Locket Chatterjee, who had made a spectacular victory in the region in the 2019 parliamentary election, suffered a shocking defeat at Chinsurah.

BARASAT: The Hindi-speaking belt in the city suburbs played a crucial role in Trinamool Congress’s landslide victory.
Non-Bengali voters, who were instrumental in the victory of the BJP in Hooghly and North 24 Parganas in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, seem to have turned the tables on the party.
BJP banked on them and left no stone unturned to consolidate these votes against the ‘Bengali’ and ‘outsider’ narrative of Trinamool Congress.
In Barrackpore parliamentary constituency, which saw the victory of Arjun Singh, then a Trinamool turncoat and now a BJP candidate, the BJP returned with empty hands this time.
The Hindi-speaking voters living in Bijpur, Noapara, Jagaddal, Khardah and Naihati voted for the TMC candidates.
“People seemed to have rejected the turncoats in this poll,” said Naihati’s winning Trinamool candidate, Partha Bhowmik. In Hooghly, the Hindi-speaking community across Champdani, Chandanagar, Serampore and Saptagram also rejected the turncoats.
The anti-incumbency emotion has acted against them whether it is Rabidranath Bhattacharya (Singur), Prabir Ghosal (Uttarpara) and Dilip Singh (Champdani).
Locket Chatterjee, who had made a spectacular victory in the region in the 2019 parliamentary election, suffered a shocking defeat at Chinsurah.
In Howrah, the non-Bengali Hindu people voted for BJP while the Muslim voters supported the TMC .
“We were blessed by Bengali voters and Hindi-speaking Muslim voters,” said Arup Roy, TMC’s winning candidate in Howrah Central.