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Congratulatory messages for winning assembly elections pour in for Mamata, Vijayan, Stalin
Congratulatory messages for winning assembly elections pour in for Mamata, Vijayan, Stalin
Congratulatory messages poured in on Sunday for Mamata Banerjee, Pinarayi Vijayan and MK Stalin after they won the assembly elections in their respective states.
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UPDATED: May 3, 2021 00:37 IST
Congratulatory messages poured in on Sunday for Mamata Banerjee, Pinarayi Vijayan and MK Stalin after they won the assembly elections in their respective states. (Photo: PTI file)
Congratulations poured in for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the TMC s big victory in the West Bengal assembly polls, even as she lost her battle with her protege Suvendu Adhikari in the Nandigram seat.
Of the 30 seats, five are reserved for the Scheduled Caste candidates (Representational)
New Delhi:
Puducherry voted to elect MLAs to its 30-member assembly in a single phase on April 6 in the shadow of a raging coronavirus pandemic.
Of the 30 Assembly seats for Puducherry Elections 2021, five are reserved for the Scheduled Caste candidates. As many as 10,02,589 were eligible to vote in the elections.
The Congress-led government in the Union Territory fell before completing its five-year term under the Chief Minister V Narayansamy who resigned on February 22 ahead of a floor test in the 33-member House (including three nominated members) following the resignations of five Congress MLAs and one Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) legislator. On February 23, President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation of V Narayansamy and his council of ministers. Then lieutenant governor Kiran Bedi was replaced and Telangana s governor Tamilisai Soundararajan took the additional charge of the
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Puducherry Election Result 2021 LIVE Coverage
Puducherry Election Result 2021: The NR Congress on Sunday won eight seats in Puducherry and its ally BJP secured four while the Congress-led Secular Democratic Alliance (SDA) emerged victorious in three constituencies as the counting continued for the votes polled in the April 6 elections. As the results for 14 out of 30 assembly seats were declared, the AINRC bagged eight, BJP three, DMK one and Congress two, the Election Commission said.
A Namassivayam ofBJP emerged victorious from Mannadipet constituency after defeating his DMK rival A Krishnan. Namassivayam, who shifted his allegiance to the saffron party in January this year after quitting the Congress, contested the April 6 poll from Mannadipet seat as BJP nominee.
It is Assam s third and final phase, while Bengal has five more to go. (File)
Highlights
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New Delhi: Over 20 crore people from Assam, Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are voting in a mammoth electoral exercise today. For the latter three, this is the first and only phase of polling. It is Assam s third and final, while Bengal has five more.
Here are the top 10 points in this big story:
31 seats are going to the polls in Bengal in this phase. The Trinamool is contesting all 31, as is the BJP. The Congress, which has allied with the Left, is contesting seven and the CPM 13, with the rest going to smaller allies like the ISF, AIFB and RSP. In 2016, the Trinamool won 29 of these seats and pocketed over 50 per cent of the votes.