TMC sweeps Bengal civic polls amid Mamata Banerjee's 2024 leadership push; BJP wins zero, calls it farce

In a fresh fillip to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, the party swept the civic body elections, winning 102 of 108 municipalities across West Bengal.

This is the TMC's third major victory after winning the Assembly elections last year, then securing victory in the recent municipal corporation polls which included Kolkata, Asansol, and Bidhannagar.

Out of the 102 municipalities where TMC has won on March 2, there is no opposition in 31 bodies, as per reports. While the BJP and Congress failed to win any municipality, the Left Front reportedly won Taherpur. In an interesting development, the four-month-old Humro party won the Darjeeling municipality.

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The latest victory comes amid the West Bengal CM's attempt to project herself as a national-level leader ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Tweeting about the victory, Mamata Banerjee expressed gratitude towards "Ma, Mati, Manush" and asked the party to remain humble in triumph.

Meanwhile, the BJP, which emerged as the main Opposition party in the Assembly polls last year, called the civic election exercise a "farce" and claimed that the ruling TMC had indulged in false voting, violence, and intimidation.