West Bengal Election 2021 Result: Battle for Nandigram ends, BJP s Suvendu wins by 1956 votes
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Mamata Banerjee set for a third term as TMC heads for a landslide victory
According to the Election Commission, as of 11:30 pm, out of 292 seats in the West Bengal Assembly election, Mamata Banerjee’s TMC has won on 197 seats and is leading on 17. BJP, on the other hand, is leading on 9 seats, and has won on 67 seats.
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Battle for Nandigram ends, BJP s Suvendu wins by 1956 votes
After a fight that went down to the last round of counting, battle for Nandigram ends with BJP s Suvendu Adhikari winning by 1,956 votes.
West Bengal Assembly election results: Trend gives Mamata Banerjee a big win
West Bengal Assembly election results: Trend gives Mamata Banerjee a big win
West Bengal Assembly election results: In the inital trend (at 12.15 pm), Mamata Banerjee s TMC crossed 200-mark in West Bengal while the BJP was trailing with fewer than 100 seats.
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UPDATED: May 2, 2021 14:28 IST
The West Bengal Assembly election 2021 result will be declared on Sunday (May 2). (Image: Rahul Gupta/India Today)
What looked like an extremely tight contest turned out to be a stamping of Mamata Banerjee s political authority in West Bengal Assembly election. In the latest trend (at 12.15 pm), Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress crossed 200-mark in West Bengal while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trailing with fewer than 100 seats.
For Mamata Banerjee to create a Congress-mukt Bengal, it is imperative she establishes her hegemony in Murshidabad, the land of the nawabs. And the 2021 Assembly polls provides her with that opportunity when 11 seats in the district votes on Thursday.
In 2011, the year of poribartan , Murshidabad, with a 68 per cent Muslim population, sided mostly with the Congress. Mamata could win only one seat.
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Mamata handed over the reins of Murshidabad district to her then trusted aide, Suvendu Adhikari, in 2015.
Dissension within the Khan Chowdhury family had made it easier for Mamata to make inroads in neighbouring Malda. Incidentally, the rise of the BJP in Malda also coincides with the weakening of the Congress and the CPM in the district.
Beyond TMC vs BJP, what is this confusion about GJM in West Bengal election?
Beyond TMC vs BJP, what is this confusion about GJM in West Bengal election?
While West Bengal election is a tight contest between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), GJM appears to be a key player in the polls. Why is GJM significant in West Bengal election? Read here.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung (Photos: PTI)
When Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced her Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates for the West Bengal Assembly election, she left three seats for friends in the Darjeeling Hills. The friends were from the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).
The significance of Bengal elections
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As the two main rivals TMC and BJP deploy a variety strategies to capture power, it could be an inflexion point for the State
The ongoing Bengal Assembly election has assumed an extraordinary significance. Till 2021, it was almost unthinkable that a party which is traditionally perceived by the average Bengali to be a party of ‘Hindi-speaking vegetarians’ can assemble several lakh people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on Kolkata’s Brigade Parade ground. So, the BJP forming a government on its own or as part of a coalition in Bengal no longer seems impossible.