Assembly Election 2026: TMC's Fayezul Haque (Kajal Sk) Wins Hansan, As BJP Sweeps His Party Out Of Power
Hansan was a Congress stronghold, before TMC won it in 2021, though sitting MLA Asok Kumar Chattopadhyay was replaced with Kajal Sk this year.
Published : May 4, 2026 at 6:02 AM IST
|Updated : May 5, 2026 at 12:25 PM IST
Kolkata: In Hansan, TMC's Fayezul Haque (Kajal Sk) win Hansan by a comfortable 28,298 votes over BJP’s Nikhil Banerjee, even as BJP won big across West Bengal.
In a historic shift reminiscent of similar verdicts in 1977 — when the Congress was swept out of power by the Left Front, as well as 2011 — when the Trinamool Congress (TMC) breached the Left Front bastion after 34 years, the TMC was handed a resounding defeat across the state, culminating in the loss of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her home seat, Bhabanipur, by her one-time protege and now BJP state chief Suvendu Adhikari.
The election season that was dominated by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that eliminated up to 91 lakh voters from the electoral rolls, while adding 7 lakh new voters afterwards, also saw several moments of high drama, including a charged campaign by the BJP led by the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and most of the Central Cabinet, along with the Chief Ministers of several BJP-ruled states on one side, and an undercurrent of fear driven by the SIR deletions.
Hansan
Hansan is a largely rural Assembly segment in Birbhum district that is part of the Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency, and covers Rampurhat II and Nalhati II CD Blocks. One of the poorest parts of the state, it is mostly populated by small land holding cultivators and landless labourers, growing two or three crops of paddy, gram, masur, peas, wheat, linseed, khesari, sesame or sugarcane.
The seat was a long-time Congress stronghold till 2016, when Milton Rashid won. In 2021, it was won by Asok Kumar Chattopadhyay of the TMC for the first time. This year, TMC fielded Fayezul Haque, better known as Kajal Sk, against Congress’s Milton Rashid, with BJP’s Nikhil Banerjee and CPI(M)’s Kamal Hasan also in the fray.
