Cooch Behar, April 18 -- With just five days left for the first phase of voting for West Bengal assembly polls, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday asserted that Trinamool Congress (TMC) will be finished "permanently" after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in the state.

The 1st phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections will be held on April 23, covering 152 constituencies. Phase 1 includes constituencies from Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Uttar and Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Purulia, Bankura, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur, Paschim Bardhaman, and parts of Birbhum and Nadia. The spread covers border districts, tribal belts, tea garden regions, and industrial areas.

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