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KOLKATA: Kalita Majhi, a 37-year-old domestic help turned politician, has scripted an extraordinary electoral journey by winning the Ausgram Assembly seat in West Bengal on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. She secured 1,07,692 votes, defeating her nearest rival from the Trinamool Congress, Shyama Prasanna Lohar, by a margin of 12,535 votes.Majhi, who once worked…

New West Bengal CM to take oath on May 9, says state BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya KOLKATA: The oath-taking ceremony of the new chief minister of West Bengal will take place on May 9, BJP State president Samik Bhattacharya told news agency ANI.After terming the Bengal poll results a “historic victory”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

Kolkata: Claiming that she had been defeated by force, Mamata Banerjee alleged that the election process was manipulated and votes were looted by the BJP. She said she had also been assaulted, but asserted that they would return again. She made the remarks on Monday evening after spending nearly five hours inside the Sakhawat Memorial…

Kolkata: The BJP candidate from Panihati assembly constituency, mother of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim, emerged a clear winner on Monday, polling 87,977 votes. She led from the very first round of counting and her margin grew as counting progressed, signalling a change of guard at Panihati, a Trinamool bastion for years.In a post on…

Kolkata: Minority voting in Bengal’s Muslim-dominated districts moved away from the long-assumed pattern of near- total consolidation behind Trinamool, reshaping electoral calculations in a state where Muslim voters influence 143 of 294 assembly seats. In Murshidabad, Malda and parts of South 24 Parganas, minority votes were split among Congress, CPM, ISF, AJUP, and, in some…

KOLKATA: BJP has gained in seats that have seen sizeable SIR deletions, irrespective of whether the quantum was higher than 25,000 people or lower.There were 169 assembly constituencies that went to the polls after the deletion of more than 25,000 names. In the 2021 assembly elections, Trinamool had bagged 128 of the 169 seats and…

KOLKATA: Bengal’s voters have decided to hand over the reins of governance to BJP, effecting a seismic change in state politics whose aftershocks will be felt way beyond the state’s borders.The Trinamool Congress fortress in Bengal crumbled under the twin onslaught of a strong anti-incumbency sentiment and a voter roll reduced by nearly 12% by…

Sources added that Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Suvendu Adhikari could be asked to remain in New Delhi over the next few days. KOLKATA: After terming the Bengal poll results a “historic victory”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold meetings in New Delhi on Tuesday and Wednesday with Union home minister Amit…

Kolkata: Despite discontent within the Matua community over large-scale deletions from the electoral roll under SIR, and the subsequent issue of citizenship certificates under CAA, BJP retained its foothold in Bongaon and Nadia. The party also captured the Matua-dominated Bagdah seat with a landslide victory after losing it in the last Assembly by-election.The Matua community,…

Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari on Monday helped decimate a party, which his father Sisir Adhikari—the family patriarch—had helped form.Once Mamata Banerjee‘s trusted lieutenant, who worked with her to end the Left’s 34-year term in office, Suvendu worked against her for five years and five months, ever since he defected to the BJP, to end her 15-year…