After 5 Terms As Baharampur MP, Adhir Chowdhury Bowled Out By Yusuf Pathan
NDTV
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was the Congress' leader in the Lok Sabha.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury won and took the crease in Baharampur in 1999, remaining not out in four successive Lok Sabha elections, until a former all-rounder making his electoral debut bowled him out this year.
And, despite the Congress' much better show elsewhere, the loss of Mr Chowdhury will be felt keenly by the party not just because his was one of only two seats it had won in West Bengal in 2109, but also because he was its leader in the Lok Sabha.
And, despite the alliance with the Trinamool Congress as part of the INDIA bloc, Mr Chowdhury remained a staunch protector of the Congress' interests in the state, becoming one of the strongest critics of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party in the process.
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