Bengali superstar and Trinamool Congress candidate Deepak Adhikari (Dev) won West Bengal's Ghatal Lok Sabha seat, defeating his BJP rival and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh.
Dev defeated Ghosh by a margin of 107,973 votes.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Dev won the seat by defeating CPI candidate Santosh Rana by a margin of 2,60,891 votes.
--IANS
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