North Bengal GTA Election Results 2022 LIVE: Counting of votes begins in Darjeeling, Siliguri
North Bengal Civic Election Results 2022 Live Updates, Bengal GTA Election Results 2022: The counting of votes for the elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) in Bengal’s Darjeeling is being taken up today. The votes are also being counted for 22 gram panchayats under the Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad in north Bengal and by-polls at six municipal wards in the districts of North 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Purulia. The elections to the GTA, the semi-autonomous council that governs the Darjeeling Hills, are being held after a decade amid a sea of change in the political dynamics of the region.
Voting for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration in Darjeeling hills and Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad in north Bengal was held on June 26, which saw a turnout of 57 per cent and 78.30 per cent, respectively. GTA, which came into being in 2011, has 45 seats spread across Kalimpong district and parts of Darjeeling district. Voting was held in 922 polling stations, of which five have been identified as critical.
Traditional hill parties such as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) and the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), besides the BJP, have boycotted the semi-autonomous council elections. Newly floated Hamro Party is contesting in all the seats of GTA after having clinched the Darjeeling Municipality in the recent civic polls.
The GJM had swept the first and only GTA polls in 2012, winning all the seats. Elections could not be held in 2017 due to a violent statehood agitation, with a state-appointed administrative body taking over the reins of the council. The Hamro Party, floated by Ajoy Edwards, a former GNLF leader and a renowned restaurateur in Darjeeling town, has emerged as a new political force in the hills.
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