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As counting of ballots progressed, Trinamool Congress continued to surge ahead of its rivals in the Assembly elections in West Bengal leading in 210 seats, whereas the Congress-Left combine is ahead in 72 seats and BJP in seven seats.
Others are leading in four constituencies.
Prominent candidates of TMC surging ahead are Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee leading by 3,160 votes over her nearest rival Chandra Kumar Bose of BJP. Speaker Biman Banerjee from Baruipur Paschim Assembly segment is ahead by 4,378 votes and state finance minister Amit Mitra is ahead in Khardaha seat by 589 votes.
State women and child development minister Shashi Panja is leading from Shyampukur seat by 4,667 seats, TMC candidate and former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla is ahead in Howrah Uttar seat by a margin of 11,000 votes and state Food Supplies Minister Jyotipriyo Mullick is leading by 3,164 votes from Habra seat.
State Labour Minister Moloy Ghatak is leading by a margin of 5,947 in Asansol North seat and state North Bengal Development Minister Goutam Deb is leading from Dabgram-Fulbari seat by 10,159 votes. Former state minister Madan Mitra, who is presently in jail for his alleged involvement in the Saradha chitfund scam, is trailing by a margin of 950 votes from Kamarhati seat.
CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra is trailing by 5,465 votes from his nearest rival Pradyut Ghosh of TMC from Narayangarh Assembly segment in West Midnapore district.
State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee is leading by a margin of 1,646 votes from Behala West seat. TMC candidate and MP Suvendu Adhikari is leading by a margin of 8,560 votes from Nandigram constituency. State Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim is leading from the Kolkata Port seat by a margin 11,000 votes.
BJP state president Dilip Ghosh is leading by 1,740 votes from Kharagpur Sadar seat, former state BJP president and national secretary Rahul Sinha is leading from Jorasanko constituency by 6,832 votes, where the collapse of a flyover on March 31 had killed several people.
Siliguri Mayor and former Left Front Minister Asok Bhattacharya (CPI-M) is leading by 6,987 votes from Siliguri seat in North Bengal. Manas Bhuniya of the Congress is also leading by 13,478 votes from Sabang constituency.
Counting of votes for the 294 seat West Bengal Assembly began at 8 AM across 90 venues spread all over the state today.
