On Sunday, the TMC romped home in West Bengal, pocketing 213 of the 292 assembly seats that went to polls, while the BJP got 77 seats.
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Tuesday claimed the BJP s arrogance was among the reasons for its defeat in the West Bengal assembly polls.
An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana also said the BJP s intolerance was responsible for it being out of power in Maharashtra.
The comments came days after Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil reportedly asked state NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal to weigh his words while speaking about the saffron party.
Bhujbal had made certain remarks about the BJP in the context of the recent West Bengal polls, where the saffron party was defeated by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Workers Unite for May Day March
International workers day was celebrated this year in San Francisco with a march calling for Congressional action on the PRO Act.
May Day is celebrated around the globe as International Workers Day. Begun in Chicago in 1886 in the struggle for an eight-hour workday, the event is commemorated each year with marches and rallies. In San Francisco this year, more than one thousand working peopleâdockworkers, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and many other unions and workers groupsârallied on May 1 and marched up Market Street, to protest racism and call for passage of the
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GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah addressed a record 18 rallies in three months across Assam and projected BJP as the sole protector of Assam’s identity. But all that and many more visits from dozens of other central and state leaders did not quite help the saffron party to better its tally than the last election.
BJP had started the campaign for Assam with ‘Mission 100 plus’ seats.
This is the first time a non-Congress government is being formed for the second successive front in the state. Coincidentally, the second term of Congress under Tarun Gogoi in 2006 had also seen a reduced strength, below the halfway mark, which saw the entry of BPF into the post-poll alliance. Congress jumped back with absolute majority in its third term in 2011 on its own but kept BPF by its side.
China’s focus on self-sufficiency will not hold back LNG demand [Gas in Transition]
May 4, 2021 5:15:am
Summary The focus of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan is self sufficiency with an implied short-term increase in coal use and a major effort to boost domestic gas production, alongside rapidly expanding renewables and nuclear capacity in electricity generation. Yet even as gas imports along the new Power of Siberia ramp up, China’s demand for LNG is expected to grow fast. Projections of 80-110bn m3/year by 2025 could well prove low, given LNG’s flexibility in meeting demand variations, possible shortfalls in targeted domestic gas output and gradual liberalisation of the gas market. [Gas in Transition, Volume 1, Issue 1]