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NEW DELHI: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has lauded 73 per cent polling with advantage BJP in West Bengal. Expressing optimism over high voter turnout in all the 7 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal in phase 5, Dr Jitendra Singh who was assigned the BJP election responsibility for phase 5 in the State, said that even though the national average percentage was around 57.57 per cent, West Bengal recorded the highest percentage at 73 per cent polling with clear advantage for BJP.
Briefing the media about yesterday’s polling patterns in West Bengal, Dr Jitendra said, in spite of the extreme summer heat, each of the 7 constituencies recorded unusually high turnout.
Giving details, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the highest polling of 76.90 per cent was recorded at Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency.
This was followed by Bongaon and Barrackpore constituencies, which recorded 75.73 per cent and 68.83 per cent voter turnout respectively.
The Hooghly constituency, which was won by BJP in 2019 also recorded a higher voting of 74.17 per cent. Sreerampore recorded polling of 71.18 per cent voter turnout while the important constituency of Howrah recorded 68.84 per cent. He said, an unusually high voter turnout which was not so much expected was seen in Uluberia which recorded 74.50 per cent polling.
Justifying his claim of advantage to BJP with the support of statistics and figures, Dr Jitendra said, Bongaon, Barrackpore, and Hooghly were already with BJP and would again return to BJP. He said, TMC had tried to create some problems in Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency but the perseverance of our candidate and the polling agents managed to deal with it very discreetly.
Howrah, he said, which we lost last time will be in BJP’s kitty this time and here we have a new candidate who is a Physician and a former Mayor.
Sreerampore, he said, was lost by BJP by an extremely small margin of just 1,000 votes in 2019, but we will win it comfortably this time. About Uluberia, he said, the contest is going to be tough with TMC but we might have an edge.
All in all, Dr Jitendra said, BJP hopes to win all the 7 seats to which the polling happened in phase 5 yesterday and we are absolutely confident about 6 seats out of these seven.
Dr Jitendra gave full credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had personally campaigned in all these constituencies and held mammoth public rallies.
In fact, he recalled some of the constituencies like Aramabagh had the privilege of hosting two public rallies by Prime Minister Modi, one after the election notification and another one just before that.
