Days after protests over polls by candidates, the Trinamool Congress has won two municipalities-Sainthia and Budge Budge without any contest. Elections to 108 municipalities across West Bengal will be held on 27 February between 7 am to 5 pm and the candidates were allowed to submit their nominations till February 9.

Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that their candidates could not submit nominations in multiple wards of several municipalities in the state including Dinhata, Bolpur, and Taki. The TMC camp, however, claims that the opposition, including BJP, is making such allegations as they failed to find their candidates there.

BJP also alleged that TMC prevented its candidates from submitting nomination papers. In response, the Trinamool leadership said that if such things really happened then it’s not a good thing and further questioned the organizational strength of the BJP in West Bengal.

Until Tuesday night, there was considerable confusion over the BJP’s candidate list and the party’s state leadership demanded that the list of all the mayoral candidates to be sent to the district and announced. But the list of candidates for some municipalities was not received from the BJP district leadership till Tuesday night. However, there are allegations from the saffron camp concerning TMC obstruction in filing nomination of BJP candidates in various municipalities.