West Bengal election result LIVE: Mamata takes oath as CM for 3rd term

West Bengal election result 2021 LIVE updates: Mamata Banerjee-led TMC has won 213 seats. Stay tuned for final West Bengal election result

West Bengal election result 2021 LIVE updates: The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) won 213 seats. The party, which had 209 members in the outgoing Assembly, improved its 2016 tally. The state has a 294-member Assembly but election was countermanded in Shamsherganj and Jangipur constituencies due to the death of candidates. A party needed 147 seats for a simple majority in the House with an effective strength of 292. Today, Mamata Banerjee will be taking the oath as the chief minister of the state for the third time in a row.  The mercurial leader, however, lost by 1,956 votes in Nandigram to former protege-turned-BJP adversary Suvendu Adhikari.

Meanwhile, challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fell way below its expected number of seats; it has won 77.

The CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Congress party, which ruled the state for nearly six decades between them, faced an unprecedented rout in West Bengal assembly elections. Neither could open its account. An alliance with the newly-formed ISF did not seem to have helped the CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Congress.

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West Bengal election result LIVE: Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar congratulates Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal election result LIVE: Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar congratulates Mamata Banerjee

10:55 AM

West Bengal election result LIVE: Mamata takes oath as CM for 3rd term

West Bengal election result LIVE: Mamata takes oath as CM for 3rd term

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West Bengal election result LIVE: Mamata Banerjee to take oath as CM today

West Bengal election result LIVE: Mamata Banerjee to take oath as CM today

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West Bengal Election LIVE: Mamata to take oath as CM on May 5 at 10:45 am

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West Bengal Elections LIVE: Mamata Banerjee arrives at Raj Bhavan to meet governor

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Bengal Governor raises concern over post-poll violence, summons top police officials

In wake of rising post-poll incidents of arson, looting and violence in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday summoned the state Director of General Police (DGP) and Kolkata Police Commissioner to discuss the law and order situation.

 

"DGP, West Bengal and Kolkata Police Commissioner summoned by me in the wake of continually rising post-poll incidents of arson, looting and violence as also killings in the State were indicated of alarming scenario. Called upon them to take all steps to restore law and order," tweeted the Governor's office.

 

The Governor further said it is sad that nine persons have lost their lives and many injured in post-poll political violence. (ANI)

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West Bengal Elections LIVE: Mamata Banerjee to take oath on May 5, says TMC leader

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Trinamool Congress successful in consolidating Muslim votes

The Trinamool Congress which scored a landslide victory in the assembly elections was successful in consolidating the Muslim votes and that had a direct impact on the results of the election. Of the 63 Muslim dominated assembly constituencies elections were held in 61 constituencies and the Trinamool Congress won 58 of them leaving two for the BJP and one for the Sanjukata Morcha.

 

The bulk of the Muslim dominated seats are mostly in four districts -- Murshidabad, Malda, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas. While Murshidabad has 16 Muslim dominated seats among the total 22 Assembly seats the rest of the three districts have 9 assembly seats each. However, elections were held in 61 of these total 63 seats because elections in two districts - Samserganj and Jangipur - were deferred because of the death of candidates. Among the rest of the 61 seats the Trinamool Congress managed to get 58 seats. (IANS)

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West Bengal Elections LIVE: Mamata Banerjee declares all journalists as Covid warriors

West Bengal Elections LIVE: Mamata Banerjee declares all journalists as Covid warriors

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West Bengal election LIVE: Mamata appeals to everyone to maintain peace

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Mamata will meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm, stake claim to form govt

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm, stake claim to form govt, according to a PTI report

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Mamata to hold a meeting with party leaders today

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Parliamentarians fighting Assembly elections do average

The Hindu’s analysis shows nearly a dozen Members of Parliament tried their luck in the Assembly elections in four States and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Out of seven Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs who contested this election, only two won. 

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Centre-state relationship: Going just got tougher for Narendra Modi govt

A more assertive non-Congress, non-BJP opposition is on the cards after the stupendous victory of the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the Left Front in Kerala, and the DMK alliance in Tamil Nadu.

 

This is bound to manifest itself in fora like the GST Council, but more immediately in the distribution of vaccines to handle the Covid-19 pandemic, as both Pinarayi Vijayan and Mamata Banerjee announced tackling the pandemic would be their top priority and made it clear that a slowdown in vaccine delivery to states not ruled by the BJP would not be tolerated. At her press conference after the results, Banerjee said her fight will be to ensure free vaccines to everyone across the country. Read on...

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West Bengal election result 2021 LIVE: 'Neglecting Covid for polls has been costly for BJP'

The results of the Assembly elections held over the past 45 days or so have broadly been on the lines suggested by the exit polls with the standout exception of West Bengal, where the “hung assembly” narrative has been proven comprehensively wrong by the Trinamool Congress’ emphatic victory. When compared with the results of the 2016 Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made remarkable gains. It has won close to 75 seats from just three in 2016 and got about 38 per cent of the vote. But the BJP was fighting to win, not come in second, so the outcome is a major setback for the party, given the vast amounts of money and resources deployed, with the prime minister, home minister, party chief, and sundry other party heavyweights addressing numerous rallies with intemperate rhetoric. Though Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s high-risk gamble of abandoning her safe seat of Bhabanipur didn’t pay off, as she lost narrowly to her turncoat lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram, there isn’t any doubt that overall the triumphal narrative of one diminutive woman defeated a brigade of powerful, bullying me, reads our Edtorial. Continue reading here