Trends in the West Bengal Assembly elections suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in Jhargram, the district where Prime Minister Narendra Modi took up jalmuri during his election campaign.
BJP’s Lakshmi Kantha Sao is leading from Jhargram by over 30,196 votes against TMC’s Munjal Sareen. So far, 18 rounds of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes have been counted out of a total of 21 rounds. Follow the Bangladesh election result live here.
Modi ate Jhalmori in Jhargram
The Prime Minister had shared a video on his official handle
He was accompanied by security personnel and paid the seller for the snack.
Mamata Banerjee described it as a “drama”. “It was just an offer. The shopkeeper didn’t make the jhalmori he had,” she said, suggesting the snack might have been prepared by the special protection group.
She challenged Modi, saying that if the Prime Minister “wants to eat fish, I will cook it for him myself.”
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Jhargram assembly constituency has been a TMC stronghold since the 2011 assembly elections, with Mamata Banerjee’s party winning it in 2016 as well as in the 2021 elections.
However, the Modi Act in the region seems to have increased the BJP’s chances, as the saffron party’s candidate is ahead of his rival TMC in the constituency.
Across the state, the BJP is looking to form a government on its own in Bengal for the first time, after breaching Mamata Banerjee’s fortress and reducing the TMC’s tally to less than 100 seats in the recently concluded elections.
