Didi, Oh Didi : How BJP Crafted Its Own Humiliation in Bengal
It is important to return to what the BJPâs 77 seats mean.
Former BJP chief Amit Shah at a helipad in Chapra, West Bengal, for an election rally. Photo: Twitter/@BJP4Bengal
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New Delhi: âDidi, oh Didiâ pretty much sums up the landslide victory of the TMC in Bengal.
The West Bengal electorate has turned Prime Minister Narendra Modiâs misogynist taunt against Mamata Banerjee on its head.
This taunt, though, is not all that will haunt the party. The election story could well be the BJPâs expansion in the state (from three seats in 2016 to 77 in 2021) or the partyâs emergence as one of the two players in a bipolar electoral landscape.
It pointed out that the Commission has already directed chief secretaries and state police chiefs to take penal action, including lodging of an FIR, against violators in all such cases under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, and other relevant laws.
Primary task of new TMC govt will be to put health system back on track: Firhad Hakim
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Primary task of new TMC govt will be to put health system back on track: Firhad HakimPTI
Last Updated: May 02, 2021, 01:25 PM IST
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Hakim, after the sixth round of counting, is surging ahead of his nearest rival, BJP s Awadh Kishore Gupta, by 33,071 votes in Kolkata Port constituency.
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Firhad Hakim (File Pic)
Asserting that the TMC will storm back to power in West Bengal, senior party leader and outgoing urban development minister Firhad Hakim on Sunday said the primary task of the new government would be to put the state s derailed health system back on track , amid the relentless surge in COVID-19 cases.
Bengal Polls 2021: A momentous day for India & Bengal, Derek O Brien tweeted. (File)
New Delhi:
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Derek O Brien tweeted a shortest possible recap of the party s route to power for a third term as it established leads over more than 200 seats. The BJP, which aspired to that goal, is currently leading in 70-plus seats. The Trinamool Congress looks set to beat its 2016 tally of 211 seats. The party is currently leading on 215 seats.
Mr O Brien s tweet was a summation of how the entire might of the BJP was stacked against Mamata Banerjee in this election. The BJP had positioned its enormous election machinery in Bengal, including its star campaigners Prime Minister Narendra Modi who held 20 rallies in the state, Union Home minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and a battery of Union ministers.
Covid-19 Protocol at the counting centres on May 2:
⚫ No candidate or agent or counting officials will be allowed inside the counting centres without producing negative reports for RT-PCR/Rapid Antigen Test or certificate of two doses of vaccination against Covid-19
⚫ No one, including political party cadres, will be allowed within the 100-metre periphery of the counting centres. The 100-metre no-entry zone will be demarcated
⚫ Public gathering will not be allowed even outside the 100 metres of the counting centres
⚫ No one having fever or Covid-19-like symptoms will be allowed inside the counting centre.
⚫ Not more than two persons will be allowed to accompany the winning candidates to receive the certificate from the returning officer