Kolkata: Following Congress’s abysmal harvest within the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday took a dig on the grand previous get together, saying that their seat share aspirations in Bengal have been akin to aiming for the ‘stars’ once they couldn’t even maintain their floor in their very own ‘backyard’.
The ruling BJP retained energy within the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, successful 25 seats within the 30-member council elections.
The general vote share of the BJP stood at 55.52%.
The Congress drew a clean within the NCHAC polls, with the vote share being 8.87%.
The TMC, alternatively, contested the polls for the primary time and bagged 7.63% of the overall votes polled.
Taking to his official deal with on ‘X’, Abhishek posted, “Despite contesting NCHAC elections for the first time, @AITC4Assam managed a higher vote share than INC, the primary opposition.”
“One might say their seat share aspirations in Bengal are akin to aiming for the stars when they couldn’t quite grasp the ground in their own backyard!” he added.
Regardless of contesting NCHAC elections for the primary time @AITC4Assam managed a better vote share than INC – the first opposition.
One would possibly say their seat share aspirations in Bengal are akin to aiming for the celebrities once they could not fairly grasp the bottom in their very own yard! pic.twitter.com/YUDw8qlR32
— Abhishek Banerjee (@abhishekaitc) January 13, 2024
Within the 30-member North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, 28 members are elected and two are nominated.
As per the outcomes that have been declared by the Assam State Election Fee, the BJP received 25 council seats, together with six uncontested, whereas three received by unbiased candidates. The counting of votes started at 8 am on Friday and ended on Friday late evening.
The TMC, a key constituent of the INDIA bloc, has proposed 2 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal to the Congress for the upcoming common elections.
Nevertheless, in response to sources, the Congress is miffed at being supplied simply two seats and has sought extra.
Within the earlier Lok Sabha polls, the TMC received 22 seats, whereas the BJP sprung a shock successful 18 seats. The Congress received the remaining two seats.
Earlier on Saturday, the digital assembly of the INDIA bloc–attended by main opposition leaders apart from Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav, and Uddhav Thackeray–concluded with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge being named because the chairperson of the alliance ‘unanimously’.
Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) nationwide president Nitish Kumar was supplied the put up of convenor of the alliance, fashioned to tackle the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together within the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. However he’s stated to have turned down the proposal.
In the meantime, quickly after the digital key assembly, Kharge stated that the seat-sharing talks are progressing positively. (ANI)
