Preview: With India’s longest ever election over, it’s a tight race between BJP and TMC in Bengal
For BJP, a victory in Bengal would bring it closer to its ‘one-party’ ambition. For Mamata Banerjee, this could be a chance to emerge as a national leader. 4 hours ago The BJP has made a serious bid for a victory, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah campaigning heavily, and engineering defections, to dislodge Mamata Banerjee and her party. | PTI/ AFP/Twitter
After over a month of voting – staggered across eight phases and held under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic – results for the West Bengal Assembly elections will be out on Sunday.
Kashmir Politicians Happy Over West Bengal Election Outcome, Congratulate Mamata Banerjee
SRINAGAR: As Mamata Banerjee lead All India Trinamool Congress party registers a landslide victory for the third consecutive term in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, reaction poured in from major mainstream politicians of Jammu & Kashmir.
Former Chief Minister and Vice President of the National Conference, Omar Abdullah while congratulating Mamata wrote on twitter,
Heartiest congratulations to @MamataOfficial didi & everyone at @AITCofficial for the remarkable victory in West Bengal. The BJP & a throughly partisan Election Commission threw everything including the kitchen sink at you & you prevailed. All the best for the next 5 years.”
Babul Supriyo is the BJP s Lok Sabha MP from Asansol (File)
Kolkata:
BJP MP Babul Supriyo broke with tradition on Sunday evening as he refused to congratulate the ruling Trinamool Congress on an emphatic win in the 2021 Bengal Assembly election.
In a short but angry Facebook post Mr Supriyo said the Bengali voters had made a historic mistake and lashed out at party chief Mamata Banerjee, whom he labelled a cruel lady . Neither will I congratulate Mamata Banerjee. nor do I wish to say I respect the people s verdict. sincerely think people of Bengal made a historic mistake by not giving BJP a chance. by electing this corrupt, incapable, dishonest government and a cruel lady back to power, he ranted.
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans.
India currently faces numerous grim challenges, but the prospect of voting in the first-ever state government in West Bengal to be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is no longer one of them.
Today, sitting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’ Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) is as of the time of posting projected by the Times of India to cruise to a repeat victory, despite the personal appearance by Modi and several other BJP luminaries at numerous massive election rallies. In spite of the raging coronavirus crisis, India’s Election Commission only last week called a halt to the rallies – one of two crowd-convening measures the BJP promoted to shore up Hindu support. As economist Jayati Ghosh wrote in Why Covid-19 is Running Amok in India in Consortium News: