Trinamool bags three civic bodies, LF, Congress get one each
The polls to six civic bodies were the first major local elections after the 2011 Assembly polls when Mamata Banerjee's party had stormed to power ending the Left Front's 34-year rule.
Trinamool won in Left citadel Dhupguri, Panskura and Nalhati and was leading in the industrial township in Durgapur, officials said.
But
Trinamool
suffered
a
setback
in
the
municipality
of
Haldia,
a
key
industrial
town,
where
the
Left
Front
captured
15
out
of
26
wards.
The
remaining
11
seats
went
to
Banerjee's
party,
they
said.
The
Cooper's
Camp
civic
body
saw
Congress
winning
with
11
seats
while
the
Trinamool
could
manage
only
one
while
the
Left
failed
to
open
its
account.
All 129 seats in the six civic bodies spread over five districts witnessed triangular contests with the main contestants being from Trinamool Congress, Congress and CPI(M)-led Left Front.
The six civic bodies were--Durgapur Municipal Corporation in the Burdwan district, and municipalities of Panskura and Haldia in East Midnapore, Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri, Cooper's Camp in Nadia and Nalhati in Birbhum district.
The allies in the UPA government and the state government here--Trinamool Congress and the Congress--turned bitter rivals in municipal polls and fought separately for the first time after last year's Assembly polls.
PTI