TMC decimates BJP's communal agenda, wins almost 50 percent vote share

TMC decimates BJP’s communal agenda, wins almost 50 percent vote share
High drama ensues as Election Commission results declared well into the night; Nandigram result disputed
By Sameer|   Updated: 4th May 2021 11:34 am IST
Kolkata: WB CM Mamata Banerjee during a video conference with party workers, in Kolkata district, Friday, April 30, 2021. (PTI Photo)
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has managed to retain power in West Bengal after one of the most aggressively communal electoral battles in the history of the state. But the electorate stood united and rewarded Mamata Banerjee another term with a vote share of nearly 50 percent!
This is huge given how vote share in each constituency won is a crucial indicator of how Banerjee was chosen by not just the minority community, but all secular-minded people from different faiths. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that ran a deeply communal campaign, openly calling Banerjee “Begum”, alluding to her alleged pro-minority bias, appears to have failed in dividing the people on the basis of religion.

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