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Dev Reacts After BJP Sweep in West Bengal, Hopes New Government Ends ‘Culture of Bans’ in Bengali Film Industry
The party won 206 seats and swept aside the TMC as voters delivered a record 92.47% turnout, officials said.
- On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party stormed to power in West Bengal, winning 206 seats and ending the 15-year rule of the Trinamool Congress led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
- The BJP's vote share climbed to around 45 per cent from 38 per cent in 2021, while the TMC's dropped to nearly 40 per cent from 48 per cent, signaling a major political realignment.
- In a high-stakes contest, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari defeated Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur by 15,105 votes. The result marks an "action replay" of the Nandigram battle where Adhikari unseated the TMC leader.
- Amid the BJP's victory, Mamata Banerjee alleged the mandate in more than 100 seats was "looted", a claim echoed by opposition allies who suggested the election was "stolen".
- Completing the party's saffron arc across Anga, Banga and Kalinga, this result marks the BJP's breach of its last major eastern bastion, aligning the state government with the Centre for the first time.
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WB poll: BJP scripts history, Mamata loses Bengal and Bhabanipur
Kolkata, May 4 (PTI) In a mandate as sweeping as it is symbolic, the BJP on Monday scripted history by winning 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule, and decisively shifting the state’s ideological and political centre of gravity. The verdict acquired […]
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R 56%
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