India, May 25 -- A major political row erupted between the Bharatiya Janta Party and the Trinamool Congress on Sunday after BJP's Debangshu Panda recorded a comfortable victory in the Falta constituency of West Bengal, where re-polling was conducted on May 21.

Panda won with over 1 lakh votes while CPI(M)'s Sambhu Nath Kurmi trailed with 40,645 votes and Congress' Abdul Razzak Molla got only 10,084 votes. All this after the TMC candidate had backed out of the contest before the polls.

Following the announcement of results, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee sought an explanation from the Election Commission over the timing of vote counting in the Falta constituency. He alleged that on May 4, when the West Bengal Assembly election results were...