In the 18th Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal elected four young representatives for the Lower House. Among 42 candidates who have won the elections, five - three of the Trinamool Congress and two of the BJP - are 'young'. Union Minister Shantanu Thakur is one of them.
Abhishek Banerjee leads young MPs group in Bengal
- 36-year-old TMC candidate Abhishek Banerjee won from the Diamond Harbour seat with a huge margin of 7,10,930 votes, the highest in the state. Mamata Banerjee's nephew won the seat for the third time in a row.
- 31-year-old Saayoni Ghosh, actor and TMC youth wing chief won from Jadavpur with a margin of 2,58,201 votes. He joined TMC before the 2021 assembly polls and had unsuccessfully contested from the Asansol South constituency.
- 39-year-old Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, the BJP's MP, registered a victory from the Purulia seat. Mahato won with a margin of 17,079 votes.
- 41-year-old Deepak Adhikari, also known as Dev, won the polls from Ghatal with a margin of 182,868 votes.
- 41-year-old BJP's Shantanu Thakur, a union minister, was elected from the Bongaon Lok Sabha seat for the second time, winning by a margin of 73,693 votes.
(With PTI inputs)
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