Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated the BJP's landslide victory in West Bengal's Falta Assembly repoll, defeating the Trinamool Congress by over one lakh votes.
BJP won West Bengal's Falta Assembly repoll with 71.2% vote share (up from 36.75% in 2021), with candidate Debangshu Panda defeating rivals by over 100,000 votes. TMC's collapse to 3.7% in a seat it held since 2011 signals a sharp political realignment in a former stronghold ahead of state elections.
PM Modi hailed the resounding victory
May 25, 2026
09:14 am
What's the storyPrime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) resounding victory in West Bengal's Falta Assembly repoll.
The BJP candidate Debangshu Panda won by over one lakh votes, defeating his nearest rival from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sambhu Nath Kurmi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Debangshu Panda of the BJP for a significant victory in Falta, West Bengal. The seat…
The BJP has secured a significant victory in the Falta assembly seat repoll. Debanshu Panda of the BJP won by a margin exceeding…
Panda won by a record margin of 109,021 votes - the highest among all 294 seats polled in April - while Trinamool Congress came…
Trinamool Congress candidate Jahangir Khan withdrew from the contest days before polling.
BJP's Debangshu Panda wins Bengal's Falta Assembly re-poll by over 1 lakh votes, marking a significant political shift.
Panda secured 1,49,666 votes, defeating CPI(M) candidate Sambhu Nath Kurmi, who polled 40,645 votes. | India News
