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Mamta Banerjee did not get even a minute to rejoice her party’s thumping victory by destroying the myth of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah’s invincibility. It was a high-voltage battle of nerves, fought over two months one woman alone, with more than a little help from Prashant Kishor’s organisation against the might of the party ruling at the Centre, which had so far exhibited nearly unchallenged authority across the country.
“What did the BJP not do to defeat Mamata in Bengal?.. But Mamata made Modi-Shah bite the dust.… The wounded tigress has given a new direction to politics of the country,” said an editorial in the May 3 edition of
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The lotus will definitely bloom in Tamil Nadu. Whenever Tamilisai Soundararajan uttered these words during her tenure as the BJP’s Tamil Nadu president, they used to be greeted with scorn and ridicule. A spate of memes on social media would immediately follow. Tamilisai’s confidence had looked far-fetched after her party’s severe drubbing in the 2016 assembly elections and subsequent bypolls. But, on May 11, when four BJP MLAs took oath in the Tamil Nadu assembly (after a gap of 20 years), Tamilisai, now Governor of Telangana with additional charge as Lt Governor of Pondicherry, would have helped herself to a smile of satisfaction.
You Don t Stop Elections In A Place Like India : S Jaishankar Amid Covid When a pandemic hits hard there are arguments, questions. People have spoken of elections, we are a democratic country, you don t stop elections in a place like India, S Jaishankar told news agency ANI in an interview.
Updated: May 05, 2021 11:26 am IST
S Jaishankar dismissed criticism over elections held amid Covid as point scoring that needed pause.
New Delhi:
Amid global criticism over political campaigns when Covid cases were exploding in the country, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has offered this justification - You don t stop elections in a place like India . He also describes Covid as a shared problem and a global crisis.
Kartik Kakar
On Sunday night, within hours of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjeeâs spectacular return to power, a group of alleged TMC supporters attacked the resident of Kamal Mandal. Mandal is the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party unit for booth 171 in Jagatdal constituency of North 24 Parganas district; the TMC won the Jagatdal seat on Sunday.
Mandal and his wife were beaten with bamboo sticks. His 80-year-old mother, Shobharani, tried to intervene but was hit too. All three were later hospitalised and Shobharani succumbed to her injuries.
At Hooghlyâs Khanakul, whose assembly seat the BJP won, alleged BJP supporters attacked the residence of a TMC worker, Debu Pramanik, in Nasibpur on Sunday night. They beat him and returned the next day to thrash him again. Pramanik was taken to a hospital where he died.
Key Economic Lessons Learnt From the West Bengal, Kerala Electoral Results
The environment created by the BJPâs campaign chariot couldnât pierce through the solid foundations of a state economy built around the principles of a robust social safety net for its most vulnerable.
Mamata Banerjee and Pinarayi Vijayan. Photo: PTI
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The electoral success of Mamata Banerjeeâs Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal and Pinarayi Vijayanâs Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala mark a critical junction in the state of Indian politics today. Not only have both these grassroots leaders, belonging to regional parties, stopped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from coming to power in their respective states, they have also shown a way to offer some key economic policy lessons that are vital towards building a strong political opposition against the BJP â at a national level too.