NEW DELHI â Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffered a resounding defeat in a key state election May 2, indicating his Hindu nationalist partyâs political strength may be slipping as the country struggles to contain an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases.
Modiâs Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was unable to dislodge West Bengal stateâs firebrand chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, after a hard-fought campaign.
On May 2 night, Modi took to Twitter to congratulate rival Banerjeeâs win. âThe Centre will continue to extend all possible support to the West Bengal Government to fulfill peopleâs aspirations and also to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic,â he wrote.
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BJP juggernaut may have been halted but it is still a force, with no viable alternative in sight, yet
Mamata Banerjee’s All India Trinamool Congress may have successfully warded off the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recent Assembly elections but that should not eclipse the tremendous inroads made into Bengal by the national ruling party in recent years. The BJP’s rise in Bengal peaked in 2019 with 18 Lok Sabha seats and 40.7 per cent of the vote share which dropped to 38.1 per cent in the Assembly polls. But it would be a mistake to discount what the BJP has managed to achieve in Bengal in less than five years since the last Assembly polls when it debuted with 10.16 per cent of vote share and just three seats. From being a bit player to occupying the principal opposition position displacing the Left and the Congress shows the BJP’s extraordinary capacity to expand its footprint in hitherto uncharted territories. This space is still available in Odisha, Te
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New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The comfortable win of the All India Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal was predicted six months ago even when BJP s campaign was at its peak. The TMC winning assembly polls came into survey of the Centre For Voting Opinion and Trends In Election Research (C-Voter) in its exit poll.
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ABVP claims ‘TMC goons’ attacked their Kolkata office day after assembly election results
ABVP claims ‘TMC goons’ attacked their Kolkata office day after assembly election results
A day after the West Bengal Assembly election results were announced, the ABVP has claimed that their office in Kolkata was vandalised and attacked by goons from the ruling TMC.
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UPDATED: May 4, 2021 01:01 IST
ABVP has claimed that their office in Kolkata was vandalised and attacked by goons from the ruling TMC on Monday. (Photo: PTI file) (Representative Image - February 2021)
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organization affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, claimed on Monday that its office in Kolkata had been attacked and vandalised by ‘goons’ from the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party.
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