On Sunday, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress had won 213 seats from a total of 294 and the Bharatiya Janata Party had to settle for 77 at the end of the bitterly contested election. Surprisingly, the other parties failed to win any seats.
However, there would be a bitter taste from Nandigram, where Mamata Banerjee, as the TMC supremo is popularly called in Bengal, lost to her former aide, Suvendu Adhikari, who won by a narrow margin of almost 1700 seats. “Let the Nandigram people give whatever verdict they want, I accept that. I don’t mind,” Banerjee said earlier in the day.
The TMC Leader Mamata Banerjee took the Elections single handedly against BJP even after a lot of hurdles and remarks from the opposition. BJP, which claimed it would win over 200 seats in Bengal, and left no stone unturned in its bid, has ended up with less than half of what it aimed for.
TMC wants a third straight term whereas the BJP wanted to sustain its uptrend in the state the saffron party’s vote share went from 17% in 2014 to over 40% in 2019 enough to claim the seat of power. The vote share of BJP has just fallen short of its tally in 2019 and nearly all the seats that it has gained has come at the expense of the Communist Party of India and its alliance partners like Congress.
