By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
Firebrand leader Mamata Banerjee (71) has earned a dubious distinction becoming the first Chief Minister in India to lose elections twice to the same rival Suvendu Adhikari in a short gap of five years.
Adhikari, a top BJP leader, defeated Banerjee by over 15000 votes from Bhabanipur constituency in the recently concluded assembly election. At the same time, Adhikari also retained the Nandigram seat where he had defeated Banerjee five years ago.
Interestingly, Adhikari had defeated the TMC leader Banerjee in the 2021 assembly elections in Nandigarm when her party had stormed to power with a huge majority.
After losing Nandigram, Banerjee shifted to Bhabanipur to enter Vidhan Sabha through a byepoll, a constitutional requirement for the CM. She had served as an MLA from Bhabanipur from 2011 to 2021 also.
She is the third West Bengal Chief Minister to lose an election from her own constituency, after Prafulla Chandra Sen in 1967 and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in 2011.