India, May 24 -- As the Election Commission of India (ECI) counted the votes for the Falta assembly constituency repoll in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Jahangir Khan also accumulated votes on the official results portal. And that's despite Jahangir Khan publicly announcing withdrawal from the election contest earlier this week.

The BJP's Debangshu Panda won by a large margin of over 1 lakh in the May 24 results. Panda got over 70% of the total votes. Sambhu Nath Kurmi of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was in second place with less than 20% votes. Then came Abdur Razzak Molla of the Congress at around 4.8%.

The TMC's Jahangir Khan, who did not even cast his own vote in the repoll on may 21, was at 3.7% despite ...