Till a month ago, all Motab Shaikh hoped for was to make it to the West Bengal electoral roll. Now, the 58-year-old is one of only two candidates of the Congress to have won in the state, keeping alive hopes of the party, after it had scored a duck in 2021. His name deleted as a voter after adjudication, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, Shaikh had approached the Supreme Court to urge the tribunals to hear his case on priority. On April 5, a day to go for the end of deadline to file nominations for the first-phase seats, the apex court ruled in Shaikh’s favour. On April 6, Shaikh filed his papers from the Farakka Assembly seat. On Monday, he got 63,050 votes to win the constituency by a margin of more than 8,000. It was his first Assembly election; with the last polls that the contraction by profession fought being for panchayats. His son now handles the family business.…