Didi's 2024 preview: TMC sweeps Bengal polls

Kolkata: In a big boost for the Trinamool Congress and its supremo, Mamata Banerjee, the party looked set to sweep the violencescarred West Bengal rural polls keeping intact the mandate it won two years back during the assembly polls by taking a seemingly unassailable lead in results declared till now by the State Election Commission.

The elections are being seen by all parties as an indicator of which way the wind will blow in the 2024 parliamentary elections from this part of the country.

The ruling TMC has won in 28,985 gram panchayat seats, besides leading in 1,540 seats, according to the SEC as of 10.30 pm on Tuesday. Its nearest rival BJP has won 7,764 seats and is leading in 417 seats.

In all elections are being held for 63,229 gram panchayat seats. The Left Front has won 2,468 seats, of which the CPI(M) alone has won 2,409.

The Left is currently leading in 260 seats. The Congress won 2,022 seats and is leading in 139. Other parties won 725 seats and led in 23 seats, while independents won 1,656 seats. (PTI)