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NANDIGRAM: Battleground Nandigram produced an epic poll confrontation on Sunday as Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and former aide Suvendu Adhikari engaged in an attritional contest that went down to the wire, with both candidates alternatively leading and trailing through each round of counting.
At 7.54pm, Adhikari tweeted from his official handle that he had won by a margin of 1,736 votes after the 17th and final round of counting. The TMC agent immediately demanded a recount, which the returning officer turned down. This prompted a team of senior Trinamool functionaries Derek O’Brien, Firhad Hakim and Kalyan Banerjee to meet chief electoral officer Aariz Aftab, demanding a recount.
Mamata Banerjee Puts on Brave Face Amid Stream of Desertions, Gives Warning to Fence Sitters
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Two days after being rocked by a resignation and an expulsion, West Bengal chief minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said any more fence-sitters were welcome to leave her party immediately to join the BJP ahead of the assembly elections.
Turning the desertions from her party into an anti-corruption plank, Banerjee said those who were quitting the Trinamool Congress were disgruntled and “corrupt” party leaders and they should hop on to the BJP train before it leaves the platform.
Addressing the mega rally at Pursurah in Hooghly district, and also described the sloganeering at the event held to honour Subhash Chandra Bose on his 125th birth anniversary as an insult to Bengal, before turning her attention to the deserters.
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