Mamata Beats Suvendu Adhikari In Nandigram By 1200 Votes
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Mamata Banerjee Wins Nandigram by 1200 votes PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-05-02T16:38:54+05:30 Mamata Beats Suvendu Adhikari In Nandigram By 1200 Votes outlookindia.com 2021-05-02T17:58:52+05:30
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According to ANI, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee won the Nandigram seat by 1200 Votes. Mamata Banerjee was contesting against BJP s Suvendu Adhikari.
With 48.5% votes share, the TMC looks set to be heading for a massive mandate. At 1.26 PM, the party was leading in 202 while the BJP was leading only in 77.
West Bengal has a 294-member Assembly but elections could not be held for Shamsherganj and Jangipur seats due to the death of candidates.
Apart from Suvendu Adhikari, whose fate hangs in balance in Nandigram against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, all the other Trinamool leaders who had joined the BJP just before the polls suffered defeat. Of t
KOLKATA: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee after coming to power for the third time in a row attributed her victory as the victory of the people of Bengal and victory of democracy. She said that she would hold the victory rally later, as handling the Covid19 situation was a priority.
Thanking her supporters she urged them not to take out victory procession due to the pandemic, rather stand by the people who are affected by the pandemic.
“I had made a target of 221. It is my double century. Though Narendra Modi had pleaded for a double engine government in Bengal, it was a massive defeat for BJP. They should not show their face to the people, “the CM said.
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.