meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm on Monday and stake claim to form the government, after her party s stupendous win in the assembly elections, Raj Bhavan sources said. The ruling TMC has won 212 of the 292 seats where polling was held in eight phases in March and April, and is leading in one where counting is still in progress. The BJP emerged as the main opposition party with 77 seats under its belt. It is for the second time in succession that Banerjee powered her party to two thirds majority in the state assembly. Tomorrow at 7 PM Hon ble CM will be calling on me at Raj Bhavan, Governor Dhankhar had tweeted Sunday night.
Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who guided the TMC to what is likely to be a spectacular victory, announced Sunday he is quitting this space , after firing a parting shot at the Election Commission, accusing it of being an extension of BJP . I am quitting this space, he told India Today TV channel after trends showed a landslide victory for the TMC, the party whose election strategy he helped craft for the assembly elections. I have never seen a more partial Election Commission, it did everything to help BJP..from allowing use of religion to scheduling poll and bending rules, EC did everything to help the BJP, he said, calling the poll panel an extension of the saffron party.
Barring occasional interviews with the news media, he works rather quietly in his election war room or is seated obscurely among throngs of party workers and leaders listening intently to them. Yet, the Man of the Match sobriquent has often been bestowed upon Prashant Kishor for his role in winning for towering leaders across parties an election game. And West Bengal was no different. ., in reality BJP will struggle to cross double digits in #WestBengal, he had tweeted as early as December last year and his words proved prophetic. If BJP does any better, I must quit this space! the poll strategist added, a statement was perceived as bravado by many given the BJP s impressive gains in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bengal and its energetic, high-decibel campaign for the assembly polls.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee is trailing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) s Suvendu Adhikari by over 7,000 votes in Nandigram, according to votes counted till now in West Bengal. TMC is ahead in the state, leading in 187 seats. The BJP is ahead in 100 seats as of now. However, these are clearly early trends and given the tough fight exit polls had predicted, the election might go down to the wire. Adhikari, a former Trinamool leader, has vowed to quit politics if he doesn t defeat Mamata Banerjee by more than 50,000 votes. I have a very old relationship with the people of the area. I have a personal relationship with almost every person in Nandigram. Pretty confident that I will win the election, Adhikari had said earlier.
Read more about WB polls result: Mamata trailing, big lead for other Trinamool heavyweights on Business Standard. The trends after the fourth round of counting show that the other Trinamool Congress heavyweights are leading in their respective Assembly constituencies.