West Bengal Public says "NO MORE LEFT"

West Bengal's fort collapsed on Lok sabha election 2009 with the opposition Congress and Trinamool Congress alliance poised to win more than half of the 42 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The Left Front has come up with its worst performance since 1977. The Trinamool-Congress combine could end up with 26 seats, reducing the Left Front to 15. Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) heavyweight Jaswant Singh won the Darjeeling seat.

In the 2004 elections, the Left Front had finished with a whopping 35 seats, while the Congress and the Trinamool had to be satisfied with six and one respectively. But this time, the LF could end up losing 20 of the seats it won five years back. the biggest story from the state is the near rout of the CPI-M-led Left Front which has been ruling the state uninterruptedly for 32 years. This is the LF's worst performance since 1977, eclipsing its previous lowest tally of 26 in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections. The heavyweights who have lost or are staring at defeat are deputy leader of the CPI-M Mohammed Salim from Kolkata North, CPI-M nominee and former Asian Games double gold medal winning athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, former union minister and BJP candidate Satya Brata Mukherjee (both from Krishnanagar) and state Congress working president Subrata Mukherjee.