West Bengal Assembly Election 2016 News
Contesting the poll on its own, Mamata Banerjee-led TMC bagged 211 of the 294 seats at stake while Congress-Left combine got 76 seats.
The BJP on Thursday made history in Assam, decimating Congress which was dethroned in Kerala too even as Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee romped home for a second consecutive term in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
Trinamool Congress on Thursday stormed back to power in West Bengal getting more than two-thirds majority.
Contesting the poll on its own in West Bengal, TMC bagged 211 of the 294 seats at stake.
PM Modi said on Thursday - "I thank the people of this country for reposing faith in the BJP."
Taken aback by the drubbing the Left Front-Congress alliance received in the West Bengal assembly polls, two opposition leaders, who played a key role in forging the unlikely pact, on Thursday blamed the "adverse political atmosphere" and the "selective transfer of BJP votes in specific constituencies" for the electoral debacle.
Hitting out at Congress, Shah said, “Assembly Election Results show that people who trying to disrupt Parliament and politicise issues have been shown doors by voters.”
The victory is big but it has not been an easy run for the 61-year-old leader of the masses.
The BJP was on the road to victory in Assam for the first time.
Mamata Banerjee thanked the voters and attacked the opposition for spreading lies about the ruling TMC.
With Congress displaying a dismal performance in Assembly Election in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam, party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accepted defeat with humility.
In the history of Indian politics, BJP for the first time opened its account in Kerala Assembly Election 2016.
Mamata Banerjee, the stormy petrel of West Bengal politics, once again proved a master strategist decimating the new Left-Congress combination and the BJP all of whom sought to checkmate her return to power.
West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress and Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK were set to retain power.
The BJP candidates are leading in 10 seats and the party is confident of winning some seats this time in West Bengal.
Slogan like 'Thanda thanda cool, cool; ghore ghore Trinamool' was heard outside Banerjee's residence as hundreds of TMC supporters thronged the Chief Minister's residence at Harish Chatterjee Street in Kalighat.
With Mamata Banerjee constructing another sweep with her Trinamool Congress surging ahead in 200 of the state's 294 seats, enthusiastic party supporters gathered outside her Kalighat residence on Thursday morning to celebrate her premature win.
Counting of votes for 294 seats in the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016 would be taken up at 8 am on Thursday in 90 venues. Counting of votes would decide the fate of 1,961 candidates.
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