As the leads in India’s much awaited assembly elections 2021 pour in, it is clear that anti-incumbency has not been as big a factor as expected. According to leads and wins as per the Election Commission of India on Sunday evening, except in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the current rulers in all the states that went to the polls will remain in power. But, regardless of actual outcomes, what is most important is that the people have won again.
The most keenly contested state was, of course, West Bengal. Here, “Didi” Mamata Banerjee’s All India Trinamool Congress is leading in 212 out of 288, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coming a distant second with leads in 78 constituencies. Of course, the BJP was nowhere in the picture in the last assembly elections in 2016, with only 3 seats, so it is a huge step up for them. The CPM and Congress have been utterly routed.
May 03, 2021, 07:51 AM IST
New Delhi: The official results for the high-stakes assembly elections held in four states and one Union Territory are almost out now for the majority of the constituencies and barring West Bengal, the predictions of exit polls remained more or less close to the actual results and trends in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
As per the available trends and results on the Election Commission of India s website on Monday (May 3, 2021) morning, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) has retained power in West Bengal for the third consecutive time, whereas, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) headed by Pinarayi Vijayan has made the first re-election in 44 years. In Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has dethroned incumbent Edappadi K Palaniswami s All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), while the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliances (BJP) have won in Assam and Puducherry.
The Lotus in Its Second Spring: How BJP Kept Assam
Assam s sub-groups of voters with divergent socio-economic realities gave a chance to BJP to erase the anti-CAA sentiments against it.
People light earthen lamps after BJPs win in the Assam Assembly Elections in Majuli district, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Photo: PTI
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At the time of writing this, Bhartiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance seems poised to return to power in Assam with the party riding high on what appears to be its all-time best performance in the state.
This was a significant assembly election for Assam for a number of reasons.
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GUWAHATI: The hotchpotch alliance of 10 Assam Opposition parties with contrasting ideologies which also had no chief ministerial face found few takers in the polls.
The “Mahajot”, formed two months ago to oust the BJP from power, was led by the Congress but it has been faced with a leadership crisis and plagued by factionalism ever since the death of former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
The Congress and the minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) had come together to thwart the split of anti-BJP and anti-Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) votes. In the 2016 elections, their combined vote share was more than that of the winning candidates from the BJP-led alliance in 14 seats.
Of 31 Muslim MLAs elected to Assam Assembly, none belong to BJP and allies
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Aminul Haque Laskar, BJP s only Muslim MLA in 2016, lost to AIUDF.
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Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) State president Atul Bora with Chief Minister and BJP leader Sarbananda Sonowal in Golaghat district of Assam. File photo
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Aminul Haque Laskar, BJP s only Muslim MLA in 2016, lost to AIUDF.
The treasury bench of the 126-member Assam Assembly will for the first time in at least 50 years have no Muslim representative. The BJP had fielded eight Muslim candidates, but all of them lost.