meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm on Monday and stake claim to form the government, after her party s stupendous win in the assembly elections, Raj Bhavan sources said. The ruling TMC has won 212 of the 292 seats where polling was held in eight phases in March and April, and is leading in one where counting is still in progress. The BJP emerged as the main opposition party with 77 seats under its belt. It is for the second time in succession that Banerjee powered her party to two thirds majority in the state assembly. Tomorrow at 7 PM Hon ble CM will be calling on me at Raj Bhavan, Governor Dhankhar had tweeted Sunday night.
Poll panel officials were responding to queries on slow updates of results. Deputy Election Commissioner Sudip Jain said there was excessive load on the servers but the counting was on. EC Secretary General Umesh Sinha said the counting was going on smoothly , and that the load on servers cannot affect the counting of votes on the ground anyway. The counting is on and results are being declared, while website is getting updated later, Jain explained. Jain also said EVMS have once again proved that it remains tamper-proof . He said barring a few incidents which were a result of lapses on part of the officials, no other major issue surfaced with regard to the electronic voting machines.
Read more about EC orders FIR over celebratory congregation in anticipation of poll victory on Business Standard. The Election Commission Sunday said it has taken a stern view of reports of congregation of people to celebrate anticipated victory
Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who guided the TMC to what is likely to be a spectacular victory, announced Sunday he is quitting this space , after firing a parting shot at the Election Commission, accusing it of being an extension of BJP . I am quitting this space, he told India Today TV channel after trends showed a landslide victory for the TMC, the party whose election strategy he helped craft for the assembly elections. I have never seen a more partial Election Commission, it did everything to help BJP..from allowing use of religion to scheduling poll and bending rules, EC did everything to help the BJP, he said, calling the poll panel an extension of the saffron party.
Barring occasional interviews with the news media, he works rather quietly in his election war room or is seated obscurely among throngs of party workers and leaders listening intently to them. Yet, the Man of the Match sobriquent has often been bestowed upon Prashant Kishor for his role in winning for towering leaders across parties an election game. And West Bengal was no different. ., in reality BJP will struggle to cross double digits in #WestBengal, he had tweeted as early as December last year and his words proved prophetic. If BJP does any better, I must quit this space! the poll strategist added, a statement was perceived as bravado by many given the BJP s impressive gains in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bengal and its energetic, high-decibel campaign for the assembly polls.