TMC+ marches towards huge victory in West Bengal; leading in 201 seats; BJP+ in 88 seats
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May 2, 2021
May 2: The ruling TMC looks set to retain power in West Bengal with its candidates leading in 201 of the state s 292 seats that went to poll against BJP s 86.
Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee was, however, trailing her former protege-turned-BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram by over 8,000 votes.
Belying expectations of a tight contest, the TMC candidates appeared galloping to victory, and, if the current trends hold, the party will easily form its third successive government in the state.
Two of the BJP Lok Sabha MPs Babul Supriyo, a minister in the Narendra Modi government, and Locket Chatterjee, were trailing in Tollygunge and Chuunchura seats. Supriyo represents Asansol and Chatterjee Hooghly seat in the Lok Sabha.
1 Cong MLA in MP, 2 BJP MLAs in UP die of covid during treatment
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April 24, 2021
Indore / Lucknow, Apr 24: Kalawati Bhuria, a Congress MLA in Madhya Pradesh, died at a private hospital here early on Saturday while undergoing treatment for coronavirus, family sources said. She was 49.
Kalawati, who represented Jobat assembly constituency in Alirajpur district, was admitted to Shalby Hospital 12 days ago, the family sources said.
Hospital s medical superintendent Dr Vivek Joshi said that her lungs were 70 per cent infected and she was on ventilator support.
Her condition deteriorated and she could not be saved, he said.
She was former Union Minister Kantilal Bhuria s niece. She had become a legislator after winning the Jobat seat in 2018.