Mamata Banerjee vs Suvendu Adhikari: पश्चिम बंगाल की मुख्यमंत्री ममता बनर्जी (Mamata Banerjee) ने नंदीग्राम विधान सभा सीट पर बीजेपी नेता शुवेंदु अधिकारी (Suvendu Adhikari) की जीत को 46 दिन बाद कलकत्ता हाई कोर्ट (Calcutta High Court) में चुनौती दी है.
For at least six hours, Mamata Banerjee was shown as trailing Suvendu Adhikari.
Kolkata:
Mamata Banerjee s huge victory in Bengal, even bigger than her 2016 win, has been tempered by her defeat in Nandigram, where results were declared around midnight.
After 17 rounds of counting, it was official - Mamata Banerjee s close aide-turned-BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari was the winner by a little over 1,700 votes after a day of yo-yo results.
For at least six hours, Mamata Banerjee was shown as trailing Suvendu Adhikari in round after round.
According to the final data released by the election officials, the Chief Minister trailed for the first 12 rounds. A little after 3 pm reports started emerging of Ms Banerjee taking a slim lead of 1,453 votes in Nandigram in the 13th round of voting.
West Bengal Assembly Elections | Nandigram RO was threatened, says Mamata
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Returning Officer was threatened, she alleges
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Returning Officer was threatened, she alleges
Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her party would approach the court on the Nandigram election results. Speaking to journalists outside her residence, Ms. Banerjee said the Returning Officer for Nandigram received threats to his life if he ordered a recounting of votes for the constituency.
While she lost from Nandigram, the TMC has won 213 seats of the 292 that went to polls in West Bengal.
“Everywhere there is one result; at one place it is different. Where did the 8,000 votes lead disappear? Then suddenly the server went slow for four hours, and then there was load shedding for 40 minutes. They have changed many things including machines,” Ms Banerjee alleged.
According to initial trends, the West Bengal chief minister is trailing by nearly 8,500 votes.
Mamata Banerjee, who is seeking a third term in office, had left Bhabanipur constituency in Kolkata to fight from Nandigram, the epicentre of an anti-land acquisition movement that catapulted her party to power in 2011 ending the 34-year-long Left Front rule.
Mamata opted for Nandigram after Suvendu quit the Trinamool and joined the BJP.
Several TMC leaders left the Trinamool along with Suvendu.
Both Mamata and Suvendu led a very aggressive campaign and indulged in attacks and counterattacks.
Exit polls have forecast a tight contest between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP in the eight-phase elections to the 294-member assembly.
Was the coronavirus pandemic an issue in Bengal elections?
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the response from both the state and centre, has been missing from the political rhetoric from either side. Part of the reason is that the official figures peg the total cases in the state at a little over 800,000 and the deaths at over 11,000. However, there is no dearth of anecdotes on how the data from the state, too, may be under-reported just like in other states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Both TMC and BJP have been negligent, to say the least, in recent months as they went about holding political rallies where the guidelines like social distancing and wearing masks were all but ignored. The cases have seen significant increase in both infections and fatality.