West Bengal Elction Results

• Polit Bureau issues statement condemning killing of CPM leader

  A day after a CPM zonal committee member was lynched in post-poll violence in Midnapore in West Bengal, the party's Polit Bureau has issued a statement condemning the killing of the leader."This murder perpetrated by TMC men is the first death in the post-poll violence. Reports are pouring in of widespread attacks on Party offices, houses of cadres...

• Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee exits after two terms in office

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee resigned as Chief Minister of West Bengal this afternoon after two consecutive terms in office.The CPM-led ruling Left Front was obliterated in the state elections by Mamata Banerjee whose party, the Trinamool Congress, fought the elections in partnership with the Congress.Mr Bhattacharjee replaced...

• West Bengal election results: Left reacts to its blackout in Bengal

  The Left is part in denial, part introspective. So used to ruling Bengal were the Communists, that leaders admit they had not factored in the rout. As it became clear that Mamata Banerjee would be the new Chief Minister in Kolkata, CPM leader Nilotpal Basu tried to analyse what went wrong for the Left. Why it lost its biggest stronghold. Primarily,...

• West Bengal election results: Mamata Banerjee set to become Chief Minister

  Many years ago, a young Congress party worker was spotted for her anti-Left zeal. Mamata Banerjee's raison d'être was to throw out the Left in her state. Today, as she brings "pariborton" or change to West Bengal, Mamata is living her dream. Her Trinamool Congress is headed for a landslide win and Kolkata is set to have a new Chief Minister...