Apart from taking a lead from the Sonarpur Dakshin assembly constituency in 2014 general parliamentary elections, the Trinamool Congress had also won the 2015 election to the Rajpur Sonarpur municipality which forms part of the Sonarpur Dakshin assembly constituency. A weak opposition is the passport to TMC’s win in the constituency. The incumbent TMC legislator Jiban Mukhopadhyay has once again nominated to contest the coming 2016 election.
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