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Barring occasional interviews with the news media, he works rather quietly in his election war room or is seated obscurely among throngs of party workers and leaders listening intently to them. Yet, the "Man of the Match" sobriquent has often been bestowed upon Prashant Kishor for his role in winning for towering leaders across parties an election game. And West Bengal was no different. "..., in reality BJP will struggle to cross double digits in #WestBengal," he had tweeted as early as Dec...

Opinion: So, No, Mr Modi Does Not Know How To Sweep Elections Opinion: So, No, Mr Modi Does Not Know How To Sweep Elections Updated: May 03, 2021 2:23 am IST They counted the votes before they counted the bodies. After huge super-spreader assembly election campaigns in several states, the results finally came in as India was gripped by an even deadlier wave of Covid. Cremation grounds overflowed and patients struggled breathlessly for scarce oxygen while the Election Commission - for whose ac...

Read more about National politics set to change as Mamata Banerjee keeps West Bengal on Business Standard. The Left and the Congress appear to be way behind the curve in West Bengals elections.

By itself, the party was leading in 124 seats

In battleground West Bengal, the BJP, following its emphatic performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, made its intentions clear right at the beginning - that they would go for the jugular.

‘Didi Oh Didi’ Trounces BJP in Bengal Mamata Banerjee emerges triumphant in the Assembly polls. The diminutive chief of the Trinamool Congress party trounced the might, the money power, the sheer strength of the Bharatiya Janata Party that was on display during the elections in West Bengal. Added to this was the partisan coverage of the elections by the usual television channels, who have given up even pretending to play the deck with an even hand. Mamata Banerjee should be commended for ...

Dubai: Several Indian expats from the states where assembly elections were held last month spent time glued on to news about the election results that were released as live updates on Sunday. Elections were held in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam — and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Speaking to Gulf News, expats from some of these states expressed their comments about the election results in their states and what they are looking forward to from the new governments. Here is what t...

In December, poll strategist Prashant Kishore had said that TMC will win Bengal. Kishore had claimed that the saffron party will not be able to score double digits. NEW DELHI: After leading Trinamool Congress to victory in West Bengal assembly elections, poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday said that he is set to quit the profession of strategizing for elections. "I do not want to continue what I am doing. I have done enough. Time for me to take a break and do something else in life. I wa...

Kolkata: In less than 24 hours from now, the EVMs (electronic voting machines) will be opened at counting centres all across West Bengal to determine the verdict of the people for the 292 seats in the state assembly (polling was withheld in two seats due to the deaths of candidates, from COVID-19). On Sunday, May 2, along with West Bengal, votes will also be counted for elections held in three other states – Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu – and one Union Territory, Puducherry. However, undoubted...

Northlines Pranav Pratap SIngh   There is a lot at stake in the Bengal assembly elections but nothing will be tested quite as decisively as Prashant Kishore’s reputation as a political strategist. Prashant owes all his fame and fortune to the election campaigns he has managed for various clients and so far, he has gotten all kinds of results too. With BJP’s 2014 campaign, Indian National Congress’ 2017 campaign of UP and Punjab along with Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party...