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Ballygunge bypoll: Defeated CPM nominee Saira Halim will get in Twitter spat with winner Babul Supriyo

By means of PTI

KOLKATA: Ballygunge meeting seat byelection winner Babul Supriyo of the Trinamool Congress and runner-up Saira Shah Halim of the CPM entered right into a struggle of phrases on social media on Sunday, with the previous BJP MP attacking her for appearing “no magnificence” after defeat and terming the Left celebration’s marketing campaign as “under the belt”.

Taking to Twitter to retaliate, Halim mentioned that her celebration believes in a classless society the place the wealthy and the deficient is probably not differentiated via the wealth and assets they personal. “I’m relieved that we gained Ballygunge defeating the vile, grimy, regularly under the belt, non-public & false propaganda of @CPIM_WESTBENGAL,” Supriyo tweeted.

And, now the girl who is a loser via other people’s verdict, does not display the grace to simply accept the defeat however as an alternative is going forward to name me ‘Corrupt’However I can humbly & flippantly benefit from the win letting her sulk within the ache of the loss Proves#EducationDoNotMakeOneEducated #LoserBjpCpim https://t.co/AY9eMnVXOU

— Babul Supriyo (@SuPriyoBabul) April 16, 2022

Supriyo, who joined the TMC in September ultimate yr after being dropped as a minister of state from the Narendra Modi executive, claimed that BJP candidate Keya Ghosh had her deposit forfeited for buying lower than 6 in step with cent of the entire votes solid.

The newly-elected MLA from the distinguished Ballygunge seat in south Kolkata previous tweeted, “Even after a grimy deplorable marketing campaign filled with lies & deceit @CPIM_WESTBENGAL & Saira Shah Halim displays no magnificence, overlook disgrace.”

He additionally sought to remind the CPM that it has no illustration within the West Bengal meeting with the Left Entrance no longer profitable any seat within the 2021 elections within the state.

Reacting to Supriyo’s tweets, Halim tweeted, “We consider in a classless society, the place wealthy and deficient is probably not differentiated via the wealth and assets they personal. Any person who judges me as having ‘no magnificence’, is aware of what he’s preventing towards.”

We consider in a classless society,the place wealthy and deficient is probably not differentiated via the wealth and assets they personal.

Any person who judges me as having “no magnificence”, is aware of what he’s preventing towards.

— Saira Shah Halim ‏‎‎سائرہ (@sairashahhalim) April 17, 2022

Accusing the CPM of resorting to a communal marketing campaign within the byelection to Ballygunge, the place greater than 50 in step with cent of the voters are from the minority neighborhood, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned, “It will have were given some votes, however that doesn’t imply a revival of the CPM is at the playing cards.”

Ghosh mentioned that the TMC management will glance into how the Left celebration were given extra votes than what it had bagged within the ultimate elections. He mentioned that the CPM’s efficiency within the Asansol Lok Sabha by-election, which was once gained via the TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha with the BJP coming 2d, has been disastrous.

Emerging from simply 5.61 in step with cent of the vote proportion in Ballygunge within the 2021 meeting elections, the CPIM) candidate notched up over 30 in step with cent of the votes polled within the by-poll, leaving in the back of the BJP to come back as much as the second one place.

The CPM ultimate gained from Ballygunge in 2001 and secured a 3rd place in the back of the TMC and the BJP within the 2021 elections, which her husband Fuad Halim had contested.