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

By 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 battle of phrases on social media on Sunday, with the previous BJP MP attacking her for displaying “no class” after defeat and terming the Left occasion’s marketing campaign as “below the belt”.

Taking to Twitter to retaliate, Halim mentioned that her occasion believes in a classless society the place the wealthy and the poor is not going to be differentiated by the wealth and property they personal. “I am relieved that we won Ballygunge defeating the vile, dirty, often below the belt, personal & false propaganda of @CPIM_WESTBENGAL,” Supriyo tweeted.

And, now the woman who’s a loser by individuals’s verdict, does not present the grace to simply accept the defeat however as an alternative goes forward to name me ‘Corrupt’But I’ll humbly & calmly 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 final 12 months after being dropped as a minister of state from the Narendra Modi authorities, claimed that BJP candidate Keya Ghosh had her deposit forfeited for getting lower than 6 per cent of the overall votes solid.

The newly-elected MLA from the distinguished Ballygunge seat in south Kolkata earlier tweeted, “Even after a filthy deplorable campaign full of lies & deceit @CPIM_WESTBENGAL & Saira Shah Halim shows no class, forget shame.”

He additionally sought to remind the CPM that it has no illustration within the West Bengal meeting with the Left Front not successful any seat within the 2021 elections within the state.

Reacting to Supriyo’s tweets, Halim tweeted, “We believe in a classless society, where rich and poor will not be differentiated by the wealth and property they own. Anyone who judges me as having ‘no class’, knows what he is fighting against.”

We consider in a classless society,the place wealthy and poor is not going to be differentiated by the wealth and property they personal.

Anyone who judges me as having “no class”, 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 per cent of the voters are from the minority group, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned, “It may have got some votes, but that does not mean a revival of the CPM is on the cards.”

Ghosh mentioned that the TMC management will look into how the Left occasion acquired extra votes than what it had bagged within the final elections. He mentioned that the CPM’s efficiency within the Asansol Lok Sabha by-election, which was gained by the TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha with the BJP coming second, has been disastrous.

Rising from simply 5.61 per cent of the vote share in Ballygunge within the 2021 meeting elections, the CPIM) candidate notched up over 30 per cent of the votes polled within the by-poll, forsaking the BJP to come back as much as the second place.

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