{"id":5576,"date":"2019-05-23T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:30","slug":"who-are-the-heavyweight-candidates-trailing-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/who-are-the-heavyweight-candidates-trailing-in-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the heavyweight candidates trailing in West Bengal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early trends indicated losses for the Trinamool Congress from some of the party\u2019s important seats, especially in Barrackpore where it is a prestige fight for Bengal\u2019s ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Trinamool Congress lawmaker Arjun Singh joined the BJP on being denied ticket from Barrackpore. He was later fielded by the BJP from the seat against Trinamool Congress\u2019 two-time MP Dinesh Trivedi. Early trends indicated the Dinesh Trivedi was trailing. Byelections were also held in Bhatpara Assembly seat which fell vacant with Arjun Singh leaving the party. The BJP was also leading from this seat, with Trinamool Congress\u2019 Madan Mitra trailing.<\/p>\n<p>Other Trinamool Congress candidates suffering setback were Moon Moon Sen from Asansol who was trailing far behind BJP\u2019s Babul Supriyo. Trinamool Congress\u2019 Dipak Adhikary (Dev) was also trailing behind BJP\u2019s candidate Bharati Ghosh. In Midnapore, Trinamool Congress\u2019 Manas Bhuniya was trailing behind BJP\u2019s Dilip Ghosh.<\/p>\n<p>BJP\u2019s Samik Bhattacharya was trailing from Dum Dum, with Trinamool\u2019s Sougata Roy ahead of him. Debasree Majumdar, who was being looked at as a star candidate of the BJP \u2013 contesting from the Raigunj seat \u2013 was also trailing. The CPI(M)\u2019s Bikash Bhattacharya, was trailing from the Jadavpur seat \u2013 behind Trinamool Congress\u2019 Mimi Chakraborty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress trailing in many seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}