Mamata Banerjee on Sunday won a spectacular victory in Bengal, defeating the BJP in elections in the middle of a raging pandemic. The Chief Minister, however, lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram. "I accept the verdict in Nandigram - it is not a big deal. Don't worry," she said.
The Election Commission has rejected the Trinamool Congress's appeal for a recount of votes at Nandigram, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had faced her aide-turned-arch rival Suvendu Adhikari. The Returning Officer has said that the result will be officially declared after the VVPAT slips are tallied with the votes on the Electronic Voting Machines. After a day of yo-yo competition. the results on Sunday evening indicated that the Chief Minister had lost to Mr Adhikari by 1,736 votes in the contest that was the centrepiece of the assembly election in the state.
The BJP party office in Arambag was set ablaze on Sunday evening as the Trinamool Congress inched towards a huge victory in the assembly elections, reopening allegations of violence by the ruling party. The BJP leaders and workers tweeted the video, alleging that Trinamool has unleashed violence on their workers elsewhere as well.
Here are the Highlights on election results 2021:
Taking note of communication @AITCofficial electing @MamataOfficial as leader of 17th WB Legislative Assembly have invited her to take oath of office of Chief Minister on May 5 at 10.45 am at Raj Bhawan.
- Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) May 3, 2021
In view of current Covid situation function will be with limited audience. pic.twitter.com/OuvzI46oLd
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives at Raj Bhavan to tender her resignation as the CM to Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
- ANI (@ANI) May 3, 2021
She will take oath as Chief Minister on May 5. pic.twitter.com/ZqSdzRfgHX
- I request everyone to remain peaceful and put up a strong fight against COVID-19
- A lot of journalists have lost their lives to COVID-19 but they haven't been called warriors
- I declare all journalists as COVID warriors
- I received an SMS from someone wherein Returning Officer of Nandigram has written to someone if he allows recounting then his life would be under threat. For four hours server was down, Governor also congratulated me. Suddenly everything changed
#TamilNaduElections | "1st priority will be to deal with #Covid situation": TKS Elangovan, DMK leader
- NDTV (@ndtv) May 3, 2021
NDTV's Sam Daniel reports pic.twitter.com/ORXEwyOFgt