• The township that gave leads to BJP in eight out of its 14 wards in the Assembly polls in May backs TMC fully in civic election
• Left Front comes second in eight Salt Lake wards
• BJP pushed to third spot in overall vote share across the corporation area
Vignettes of victory celebrations at the counting centre
Supporters click a selfie with Ward 7 winner Debraj Chakraborty
Ward 29 winner Krishna Chakraborty with daughter Anindita and son Rajdeep
Ward 31 winner Sabyasachi Dutta receives the victory certificate from municipal returning officer Biswajit Panda. From the counting centre, he visited the Kalighat residence of chief minister Mamata Banerjee who gifted his wife Indrani a sari for Valentine’s Day, he later said.
Pictures by Sudeshna Banerjee, Brinda Sarkar and Sanat Kr Sinha
