From 'Outsiders' To Show Of Love Amid Bengal Violence: TMC, BJP Candidates Hug Outside Polling Booth. WATCH

This comes as a surprising twist as earlier in March both leaders were engaged in slamming each other. 

BJP MP and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha seat candidate Dilip Ghosh and Trinamool Congress candidate from Bardhaman-Durgapur Kirti Azad hug each other ( Image Source :X/@ANI )

Being rivals in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, BJP MP Dilip Ghosh, and TMC leader Kirti Azad on Monday embraced each other while going to a polling booth in Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency, news agency ANI reported. This comes as a surprising twist as earlier in March both leaders were engaged in slamming each other. 

#WATCH | Bardhaman, West Bengal: BJP MP and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha seat candidate Dilip Ghosh and Trinamool Congress candidate from Bardhaman-Durgapur Kirti Azad hug each other while going to a polling booth in Bardhaman#LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/eLDiLPp0Si

— ANI (@ANI) May 13, 2024

In an apparent jibe at Kirti Azad, BJP's Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha candidate Dilip Ghosh called his political opponent an "outsider." Agitated with the swipe, Azad called Ghosh "Kaliyug's Mahishasur." 

While campaigning at Gaur Kalibari Temple, Ghosh said: “Pray to the Goddess that I may keep the honour of Burdwan-Durgapur. Outsiders should take off their clothes and leave.” 

A few hours later, Azad stated: “BJP workers should send such Mahishasuras to hospital. If they do not do so, Trinamool workers will raise cash and get him treated at a hospital...Mamatadi’s Trinamool team will kill this Mahishasura by defeating him in the elections.”

Polling is underway at Bardhaman Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency. The results of which will be declared on June 4, 2024. 

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, S.S. Ahluwalia, who was representing the BJP, won as the candidate from the Bardhaman Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency. Ahluwalia secured a total of 598,376 votes, while her closest competitor, Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita of the AITC, received 595,937 votes. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita faced defeat with a margin of 2,439 votes.