New Delhi, April 27 -- In the 2021 assembly polls in West Bengal, the incumbent Trinamool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee won by a landslide, bagging 216 of the 294 seats in the assembly, defying exit polls that predicted a close race against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP won 77 seats becoming the official opposition party.

The remaining one seat was bagged by Nawsad Siddique, the Indian Secular Front (ISF) candidate in Bhangar Assembly constituency of the South 24 Parganas district. The ISF had then contested elections in alliance with the Congress and the Left.

Nawsad Siddique, 32, won in 2021, defeating TMC's Rezaul Karim by over 24,000 votes and becoming the only other opposition party, except the BJP, in the ...