‘No impact of recent polls on municipal corporation election’

SILIGURI, May 27:Mr Bikash Ghosh, the mayor, Siliguri municipal corporation, ruled out any impact of the just-concluded panchayat poll on the outcome of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation election slated next year.  In view of the BJP-Trinamul Congress’s good show in the rural polls in Rajgunj block in Jalpaiguri district close to Siliguri, the Opposition predicted a similar drubbing for the Left Front, particularly for the CPI-M, in the coming Siliguri Municipal Corporation elections. Brushing away the Opposition’s claim the Siliguri mayor, said that the Opposition would even find it difficult to manage a foothold in the coming SMC election. “Contrary to its expectations the Left Front would win the election with a thumping majority. The Opposition perhaps does not know how much isolated it is from the common people of Siliguri,” Mr Ghosh affirmed. He further said that the role of the Opposition in the development of the Corporation area was nothing. “The huge development projects being undertaken under the present SMC regime would, of course, pay us rich dividends in electoral terms in next year’s SMC election. The common people are satisfied with our performance and would return us with a huge majority,” he said. [The Statesman]