Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was among the first political figures to congratulate Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee after her “stupendous victory” in the West Bengal Assembly polls on Thursday.
The AAP national convenor gave her a call at the end of a busy morning, hemmed in between a janata darbar and a court appearance, even as senior party functionaries kept him abreast of election results. According to a source close to him, Mr. Kejriwal had “apprehensions over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s expected success in Assam”.
Mr. Kejriwal then had, what a source close to him described as “a brief and measured telephonic conversation”, with Ms. Banerjee, who in turn is understood to have invited him for her swearing-in ceremony, the date of which is yet to be decided.
“ Bahaut bahaut mubarak ho didi (Many, many congratulations, didi)” the Chief Minister told his counterpart in West Bengal. Mr. Kejriwal then took to Twitter to announce that he had congratulated Ms. Banerjee, whose TMC swept 211 of the 294 Assembly seats while the Left-Congress combine could muster only 75.
