Kolkata: Riding a pro-Mamata Banerjee wave in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress yesterday scored a resounding victory in the civic elections, winning four out of five municipal bodies, including the prestigious Howrah Municipal Corporation.
It swept the polls in the Jhargram and Krishnanagar civic bodies and retained that in Medinipur, while winning a couple of seats for the first time in Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury's bastion Behrampur.
In the Howrah Municipal Corporation elections, the TMC steamrolled the Left Front, winning 41 wards of the 50-member body.
The Left Front, which had 33 seats earlier, managed only two while Congress bagged four and BJP two.
While BJP candidate Gita Roy defeated heavyweight Mayor Mamta Jaiswal of the CPI(M) in ward No. 13 in a four-cornered contest, deputy Mayor Kaberi Moitra of CPI lost to TMC's Sabitri Devi Shaw.
Counting in ward No. 44 is yet to be taken up owing to repolling in one booth scheduled later this week.
The CPI(M)-led Left Front, which has been winning the Howrah Municipal elections since the formation of the civic body in 1984, was relegated to a pathetic third.
