Madhuparna Thakur Makes History As Youngest MLA At 25 (image-twitter/TrinankurWBTMCP)
Madhuparna Thakur, daughter of Trinamool Congress MP Mamatabala Tagore has been elected as the youngest MLA in the state assembly. She has created history by winning the by-elections from the Matua-dominated Bagda seat at the age of only 25.
Madhuparna has been elected from Bagda constituency by winning against BJP’s Binay Kumar Biswas by a margin of 33,455 votes.
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A newcomer to politics, Madhuparna, a resident of Thakurnagar, is a first-year postgraduate student at the West Bengal State University in Barasat. She hails from the family of the Matua community’s founder Sri Harichand Thakur. The Dalit Matua community has a sizeable presence at Bagdah and Ranaghat South assembly seats which had gone for polls on July 10th alongside Raiganj and Manicktala in West Bengal.
The byelection for this Assembly constituency was necessitated because of resignation of Biswajit Das. There were a total of nine candidates in the fray.
The ruling Trinamool Congress won from Bagda Assembly constituency in 2011 and 2016. BJP managed to win the Bagdah assembly seat in 2021.
Biswajit Das who contested on a BJP ticket in the 2021 assembly elections from Bagdah after switching over from Trinamool Congress managed to secure a victory.
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Das again joined the Trinamool Congress ahead of Lok Sabha elections this year and contested the poll from Bongaon Lok Sabha seat on TMC’s ticket but lost to BJP’s Shantanu Thakur.
Bagda is an assembly constituency in West Bengal. The Congress had fielded Ashoka Kumar Haldar for Bagdah Assembly bypolls while All India Forward Bloc nominated Gour Biswas as their candidate.
