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TMC party supporters raised slogans against the BJP- led NDA government, and hurled stones and bricks at security personnel outside Nizam Palace, which houses the CBI regional office there.
TMC retained all seats in city on the back of populist schemes, worsening COVID-19 situation Kolkata
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TMC retained all seats in city on the back of populist schemes, worsening COVID-19 situation KolkataPTI
Last Updated: May 09, 2021, 02:07 PM IST
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The overwhleming support for TMC was seen in Jorasanko, Bhabanipur and Kolkata Port constituencies of the city despite their sizeable mixed populations.
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The poll in the 292 seats of the state was held over a protracted eight phases. Election to two seats were cancelled following the death of their candidates.
Trinamool Congress has retained all 14 assembly seats in the city defeating rival BJP by convincing margins in the recent West Bengal assembly poll on the back of populist schemes and the worsening COVID-19 situation, despite the shrill polarisation bid by the saffron party.
Bengal did choose its own daughter, and embraced so many more
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Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 05:51 PM IST
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Women candidates, irrespective of their political affiliation, are basking in electoral glory, with several female nominees emerging triumphant in the high-octane elections, including TMCs Ratna Chatterjee, Shashi Panja and Chandrima Bhattacharya, and BJPs Agnimitra Paul, Chandana Bauri and Tapasi Mondal.
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By the afternoon of May 2, it was loud and clear that women as well as men in West Bengal had not just chosen one daughter - Mamata Banerjee - but several others.
Large hoardings put up by the TMC which screamed Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye(Bengal wants her own daughter) in the run-up to the assembly polls were possibly put with an eye on the decisive 49 per cent female electorate in the state whose votes were being wooed both by Bengals tigress Mamata Banerjee and her rivals in BJP.
Didi returns: Bengal did choose its own daughter, and embraced so many more
By the afternoon of May 2, it was loud and clear that women as well as men in West Bengal had not just chosen one daughter - Mamata Banerjee - but several others.
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KOLKATA: Large hoardings put up by the TMC which screamed Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye (Bengal wants her own daughter) in the run-up to the assembly polls were possibly installed with an eye on the decisive 49 per cent female electorate in the state, whose votes were being wooed both by Bengal tigress Mamata Banerjee and rival BJP.