Mamata Banerjee wins West Bengal again, to take vaccine fight to Centre now

In the high-stakes 294-seat state polls, Banerjee's TMC registered its best performance ever, wining or leading in 217 seats and bagging a vote share of 48% as at the time of publication

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee landed a landslide victory for her Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the West Bengal Assembly election, the result of which was announced on Sunday, decimating the challenges by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But there remains a confusion over the outcome in Nandigram, the seat of her prestige fight with former party colleague and now a BJP member, Suvendu Adhikari.
 
A three-member TMC delegation was understood to have met the Chief Electoral Officer at the Election Commission office in Kolkata and sought a recount in Nandigram, even as Banerjee's protégé-turned-adversary Adhikari tweeted thanking the people of