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.
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New Delhi: Continuing his rant against BJP’s defeat in the West Bengal Assembly election, BJP leader and former Tripura and Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy has once again blamed the senior party leadership of the state for the poll debacle, and also slammed them for “dragging the names of Prime Minister and Home Minister through mud”.
In a series of tweets posted Thursday, Roy named BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, Bengal BJP Chief Dilip Ghosh, National Joint General Secretary Shiv Prakash, and Co-incharge of West Bengal Arvind Menon and said these four have “heaped the worst possible insults on ideologically driven BJP workers and devout RSS workers”.
In the Bengali versions of his tweets, Roy used "nogoreer notira" for the women candidates, which refers literally to "actresses of the city" and carries misogynistic connotations.