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Election saga: How BJP lost the plot in Bengal polls
The defeat in Bengal Assembly polls is surely going to be a big lesson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).In a rare electoral setback for the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine, the duo failed to crack the sentiments of the people of West…
Reality check: Nearly one-third of BJP MLAs in Bengal defected from other parties
The Bharatiya Janata Party won 77 of the 292 seats in the recently concluded Assembly elections in West Bengal, way below the expectations of the party that was eying to wrest power from the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state.But there…
Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP of instigating violence in Bengal
Hours after Union minister and senior BJP leader V. Muraleedharan alleged that his convoy was attacked by Trinamool Congress supporters in West Midnapore district, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the saffron…
7 BJP candidates had their deposits forfeited in Bengal polls
Of the 292 candidates who contested in the recently concluded Assembly elections in West Bengal, the deposits of seven BJP candidates have been forfeited.The seven saffron party nominees who suffered humiliating defeats were from…
Mamata Banerjee takes oath as Bengal CM for 3rd time
Mamata Banerjee after taking her oath as West Bengal CM for the third consecutive time in an unembellished function at the 'Throne Room' in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Wednesday morning announced that handling the Covid situation in the state…
Seats won by wafer-thin margins in Bengal Assembly polls
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikaris narrow win over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the battle of prestige in Nandigram was one of the major talking points of the Bengal Assembly polls after the results were announced on May 2.While…
Setback in Junglemahal & North Bengal key reason for BJP’s defeat
Though BJP gained 74 seats compared to the last assembly election in 2016 but it was nowhere near its performance in the Lok Sabha polls where it not only got 18 seats but was ahead in 122 of the 294 assembly seats in the state.Despite the…
Three of five BJP MPs bite the dust in Bengal
While the Trinamool Congress is close to attaining a three-fourth majority in the Assembly elections in West Bengal, three of the five heavyweights of the BJP have fallen prey to the deluge of the ruling party.Star BJP candidates and MPs…
In two rallies at Bengal, Modi launches sharp attack on Mamata Banerjee
Launching a blistering attack on chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that the Trinamool Congress supremo has an old habit of doing politics with dead bodies and she is trying to do the same with the…
Yashwant Sinha wants high-level enquiry on Mamata ‘audio clips’
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha has asked for an immediate, high-level and independent enquiry into the 'audio clip' released by the BJP IT cell claiming it contained a phone conversation between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata…