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If the 2011 Assembly poll victory was in reaction to her call of Poribartan (change) to oust the 34-year Left Front rule, the verdict in 2016 is an assertion of people’s faith in Mamata’s leadership. Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

Mamata’s political capital on a high

Shiv Sahay Singh In future a new alternative may emerge, says Trinamool chief on national role.

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

Trinamool now an unrivalled powerhouse

Suvojit Bagchi Contesting alone, party polls nearly 45 per cent of the votes for the first time; biggest loser in the State is the Left.

CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury.

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

CPI(M) will review Bengal results: Yechury

Special Correspondent Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday that the party would review its poor showing in West Bengal, even as he congratulated party workers for the historic victory in Kerala. “There are several political battles. We won the battle for Kerala, but lost the battle for Bengal,” he told reporters after the election trends became clear. Who would be the Chief Minister in Kerala, nonagenarian V.S. Achuthanandan or Pinarayi Vijayan? Mr. Yechury said the

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TMC supporters erupt in celebration outside Chief Minister's Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kolkata on Thursday: Photo: Shiv Sahay Singh

TMC sweeps West Bengal Assembly polls

Why is Phase 5 of West Bengal Assembly polls important?

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Mr. soren's swearing in ceremony at Ranchi

Hemant Soren takes oath as 11th Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Satyasundar Barik Mamata Banerjee, Ashok Gehlot, Tejaswi Yadav, Sitaram Yechury, Stalin, Kanimozhi among those who attended Hemant Soren's swearing-in ceremony

Newly sworn-in Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren with his father Sibu Soren, mother Rupi Soren, Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Ashok Gehlot, MK Stalin, Sitaram Yechury, D. Raja, Sarad Yadav and other leaders during the oath taking ceremony at Morahabadi ground in Ranchi on Sunday.

In maiden order, Hemant Soren drops Pathalgadi cases

Staff Reporter Jharkhanad Chief Minister holds first Cabinet meeting; Assembly convened from January 6 to 8 to administer oath to MLAs

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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

West Bengal at the top of the heap

The message from West Bengal

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

Left parties rue seat adjustment strategy in Bengal

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

Mamata’s political capital on a high

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

CPI(M) offices vandalised

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016

‘Victory will set the tone for more reforms’

Trinamool now an unrivalled powerhouse

Contesting alone, party polls nearly 45 per cent of the votes for the first time; biggest loser in the State is the Left.

CPI(M) will review Bengal results: Yechury

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday that the party would review its poor showing in West Bengal,

BJP took advantage of people’s anger: Brinda

On a day the Left Front performed spectacularly in Kerala but suffered heavy losses in West Bengal, Vikas Pathak spoke to CPI (M) Polit Bureau member

AIADMK, Trinamool win; Cong. routed in Kerala, Assam

It was a day of electoral firsts as the results of the Assembly elections in four States and one Union Territory came in on Thursday — Tamil Nadu

Decoding Didi’s popularity

Undiminished personal appeal and quick thinking saw Mamata Banerjee through.

TMC sweeps West Bengal Assembly polls

Mamata set for a landslide victory in Bengal

According to data, the TMC’s vote share has increased while the vote percentage of the CPI(M) led Left Front has dipped significantly.

Mamata appeals for peace after election win

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that there will be no victory march.

Modi congratulates Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee

While it is a comeback for Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee, BJP will form government for the first time in Assam and Kerala has gone the Left way.

West Bengal Assembly polls: Hits and misses

Mamata Banerjee has won, but her rivals — CPI(M)’s Surjya Kanta Mishra and BJP’s Dilip Ghosh — have lost.

Opposition accepts defeat, asks TMC to shun violence

Trinamool leads in 190, Congress-Left Front combine in 64, BJP in six and independent in one.

2016 West Bengal Assembly election results: As it happened

Mamata Banerjee gets a massive mandate with the party winning a solid two-thirds majority, appeals for peace and asks Opposition to learn from this experience.

Assembly Election results: Congress, Left hope for turnaround

Congress is defending governments it leads in Assam and Kerala, the Left parties have a major presence in Kerala and West Bengal.

West Bengal

2016 Assembly polls: Mamata, BJP most discussed on Facebook

Among the States, Assam was most popular with conversation of 28% netizens figured around it.

Will wait for May 19, says Trinamool

Party leaders meet after exit polls results; Left, Cong. leaders question credibility of the numbers.

It’s BJP in Assam, LDF in Kerala, Mamata in WB, DMK in TN: Exit polls

Mamata Banerjee-led TMC will retain power in West Bengal and it’s Left Democratic Front in Kerala, predicts Exit polls

First-time flourish fills enclave booths

‘It does not matter to us who wins. Voting by itself is a victory for us’

About 85% turnout in Bengal final phase

EC orders lodging FIRs against two TMC candidates

Suvendu sends legal notice to Surya Kanta Mishra

A legal notice has been served to CPI(M) state secretary Surya Kanta Mishra for allegedly making “false allegations and sullying” the reputation of

84.24% turnout in sixth phase of West Bengal polls

The sixth and the final phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls begins in 25 seats of Purba Medinipur and Cooch Behar districts under heavy security

‘Speculators wrong, BJP has the edge in WB’

Babul Supriyo says there are no permanent friends or foes in politics, and ‘a lot of people will be taken on board and many will leave’.

Enclaves in first flush of franchise

The new Indian citizens are waiting for a new dawn.

West Bengal primed for final fight

The sixth and the final phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls will be held on Thursday in 25 seats of Purba Medinipur and Cooch Behar districts

It’s wind-up time in West Bengal

The campaign for the sixth and final phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections ended on Tuesday amid large-scale violence in several parts of the

The tailor of Nandigram, and his strong suit

Rezzak, former panchayat head who called the police to the village in 2007, recalls the tragic events that changed West Bengal politics

Rights activists take an about-turn

They accuse Mamata of not keeping promises like release of political prisoners

Staggered polls: is it phase neutral?

Do the long-drawn-out elections have an impact on results? Can resource-poor parties sustain the campaign for so long?

The view from the corner office

Industrialists still bat for a single-party rule in place of a coalition government.

Did BJP let a bird in hand fly off in Bengal

The party strangely did not push two Central schemes into the campaign discourse.

Mamata turns against police

Even as elections in West Bengal entered its final phase with polling remaining only in 25 of the 294 Assembly seats, political temperature is the

About 80% turnout in Bengal Phase 5

Trinamool-Left clashes break out in several areas

Why is Phase 5 of West Bengal Assembly polls important?

A number of political heavyweights, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party candidates who were purportedly seen in the Narada sting

78.25% polled in Phase V of West Bengal elections

31 seats in South 24 Parganas and 18 in Hooghly besides four in South Kolkata go to polls in penultimate phase of the 6-phase election.

A daily battle with the sea at Sundarbans

As many as 3,000 voters of Ghoramara will vote on Saturday. Thirty-one seats in South Parganas will be covered in the fifth phase.

Fifth phase most critical, says experts

All eyes will be on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who is contesting from the Bhawanipur Assembly seat in the fifth phase of the West Bengal Assembly

Transgender to become presiding officer for first time

The fifth phase of West Bengal assembly polls tomorrow will be a watershed for the third gender community as for the first time one of them has been

West Bengal polls: 10 crude bombs seized by police; none held

Kolkata police on Friday seized ten crude bombs kept inside a bag lying in the backyard of a club in the Tiljala area in the southern part of the

Many star candidates in penultimate phase

The campaigning for the fifth phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls ended on Thursday. The fate of political heavyweights including Chief Minister

The roulette is on in West Bengal now

As mercury touched nearly 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday afternoon, Mamata Banerjee started her final leg of campaign in south Kolkata, which is going

A pugilist’s political punches hit the mark for Mamata

He is not only one of senior-most leaders of the Trinamool Congress but also has the distinction of being its first elected MLA. Sovandeb

Congress-Left alliance is no zero-sum game

Considering their vote share in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, they would have led in 98 Assembly segments together.

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