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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been officially routed in West Bengal — a state which had always sent a CPM leader to Parliament since Independence.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won two seats in 2014, has bagged 18 seats in West Bengal — its highest ever tally in the state. The Trinamool Congress has been reduced to 24 seats — 10 seats less than its 2014 tally, when even the communists had managed to win two seats in the state.
Mohammad Salim, the communist MP from West Bengal, lost to the BJP’s Debasree Chaudhri and finished a distant third
