Arrogance, money power, divisive agenda lost polls in West Bengal: Kapil Sibal
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Last Updated: May 03, 2021, 11:37 AM IST
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Mamata Banerjee fended off a spirited challenge by the BJP in West Bengal with a landslide victory for her party on Sunday, bagging a third consecutive term.
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Monday hailed the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC s electoral triumph in the West Bengal Assembly polls, while saying it was arrogance, money power and using Jai Shri Ram for politics that lost in the state.
Banerjee fended off a spirited challenge by the BJP in West Bengal with a landslide victory for her party on Sunday, bagging a third consecutive term.
Congress rout fuels anti-BJP front moves by regional players
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The latest round of electoral setback not only weakens the Congress position within the larger opposition turf but also that of the Gandhis, especially as their capacity to win votes and keep Congress united have increasingly come under the scanner even internally.
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Trinamool and DMK victories on a day Congress’s electoral ride came a cropper are expected to provide impetus to ongoing efforts of regional satraps to come together against the BJP in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. One likely, if not intended, fallout would be the regional forces’ negation of Congress as the national pivot for anti-BJP unity, some persons involved in the move said.
Congress says Assam Jatiya Parishad and Raijor Dal dented its vote in the state polls
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Congress party prior to the election cobbled up 10 parties led by the Grand alliance. The alliance has declared that it will form a high power committee to find out the reasons for its failure and will take up with the Election Commission the matter of EVMs. Congress party stated EVMs were found in the car of BJP candidate, there were instances where serial number of EVMs did not match.
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Singh said, “Both Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Raijor Dal were formed as a reaction to CAA and against the policies of BJP. However, from their activities in the election BJP benefited.