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Left supporters helped BJP, says Trinamool Congress after poor show

Incidentally, the Left Front lost 22.21% of vote share in this year's general election

Lok Sabha elections 2019
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TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s party lost 12 seats in the Lok Sabha election while the BJP gained 16 seats

Avishek Rakshit Kolkata
Apart from alleging that the BJP used cash to sway voters in its favour, the TMC blamed Left Front supporters, accusing them of conniving with and supporting the BJP to take on the TMC in West Bengal in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. 

The TMC lost 12 seats in the election while the BJP gained 16 seats. The Congress lost two seats and the Left Front drew a blank. In the 2014 general elections, the TMC had won 34 seats, the BJP stood at only two while the Congress bagged four seats and the Left Front had won 2. 

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