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TopicWest Bengal assembly elections

Topic: West Bengal assembly elections

‘A test Rahul Gandhi failed’ — Congress drubbing in Kerala, Bengal will hurt party chief push

Rahul Gandhi's leadership has been questioned by many in Congress in the past year. The election debacle will further intensify resistance to him taking on the post of party president. 

Mamata loses nail-biter in Bengal’s Nandigram to Suvendu, says EC played ‘mischief’

Mamata Banerjee lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari by 1,956 votes. She said she would go to the court as the ‘people have witnessed the horror of the ECI’ in Bengal.

‘Bengal saved India today’ –– Mamata Banerjee on TMC’s landslide victory

Reiterating her pre-poll promise, Banerjee said that the TMC government will provide free vaccines to the people of the state, noting that tackling Covid pandemic was her priority.

Bengal has stopped BJP’s Ashvamedha yagna — and given India an opportunity

Even in the victory, Indians must admit that the factors responsible for the BJP’s humiliating defeat in Bengal and Kerala do not add up to a grand story of reclaiming democracy.

Assam win offers consolation to BJP on day of grand Bengal defeat & blow to Kerala, TN push

2021 assembly elections were a super-charged affair dogged by controversy from the get-go, primarily on account of the rallies convened by parties amid Covid.

Bengal is Modi-Shah’s biggest flop show. Indian politics won’t be the same after this defeat

Sunday’s result showed Modi’s popularity & Shah’s vaunted ‘Chanakyan’ strategy weren’t good enough for a regional satrap who possesses skill and will to fight.

Didi is now the dada of Bengal. This is India’s ‘jhaal muri’ moment

Didi converted the humble wheelchair into a chariot or a throne fit for a queen. ‘Senti’ Indians loved it.

Behind Congress’ Bengal debacle — rifts, confused messaging & abandonment by Delhi leaders

Congress is leading on one seat, after having won 44 of 92 in 2016 polls. Things are worse than Bengal leaders expected, but they say the party had it coming.

Why BJP’s Bengal blitzkrieg and Modi-Shah attacking Mamata have failed

BJP’s hopes of forming its first government in Bengal crumbled Sunday as trends for 2021 assembly elections pointed to a clear victory — third in a row — for Mamata Banerjee’s TMC 

Five reasons why Mamata Banerjee is set to sweep Bengal despite a BJP surge

Current trends show ruling Trinamool Congress is leading in 208 seats, of the 292 seats contested, while the BJP is ahead in 79.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.