Trinamool’s Dev defeats BJP’s Bharati Ghosh in Ghatal

Malda: Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Dev alias Deepak Adhikari during election campaign in Malda on April 17, 2019. (File Photo: IANS)

Malda: Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Dev alias Deepak Adhikari during election campaign in Malda on April 17, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Kolkata: Bengali superstar and Trinamool Congress candidate Deepak Adhikari (Dev) won West Bengal’s Ghatal Lok Sabha seat, defeating his BJP rival and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh.

Dev defeated Ghosh by a margin of 107,973 votes.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Dev won the seat by defeating CPI candidate Santosh Rana by a margin of 2,60,891 votes.

Published on: May 23, 2019 at 21:10 IST

IANS