UNI ELECTION SPECIALBy Biswabrata GoswamiKharagpur, April 21 -- Demographically a mini-India, Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency has rarely gone with the flow, with its outcome more often than not bucking the trend seen in other parts of West Bengal.
Considered what psephologists may call a marginal seat, the results in this West Midnapore district constituency has often been settled by small difference of votes between the winners and losers.
For decades, Kharagpur Sadar remained a stronghold of the Congress, or more particularly of the venerated "chacha" of Bengal politics - Gyan Singh Sohanpal, who won ten times between 1969 and 2011, till losing to BJP's Dilip Ghosh in his swan song election in 2016. The saffron outfit held on to t...