Mamata Banerjee Will Storm Back To Power In West Bengal
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First publised on 2021-05-02 06:52:46
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The Trinamool Congress has taken a decisive early lead in early trends in the counting of votes in West Bengal. As per reports trickling in from counting centres, the party is showing leads in 200 seats while the BJP is ahead in only 90 seats. Although early leads sometimes get reversed, one feels that the TMC has opened up a huge and probably decisive lead at the halfway stage and it will now be difficult for the BJP to come anywhere near it, let alone beat it.
This tally exceeds all opinion polls and exit polls calculations and is closer to what the TMC's internal assessments had regularly shown to the party bigwigs, including political consultant Prashant Kishore who was advising the party in its campaign against the all-out war that the BJP had declared on the regional party. It also means that despite the excessive firepower unleashed by the BJP, it has not managed to storm the TMC citadel.
Almost all high profile BJP candidates are trailing as of now, the prominent ones being Swapan Dasgupta, Locket Chatterjee and Baishali Dalmiya. It seems that the minority and women voters have not deserted Mamata Banerjee and she is likely to storm back to power.
The only blemish in an otherwise strong showing is that Mamata herself is trailing in Nandigram. Suvendhu Adhikari is ahead by over 5000 votes. But the counting is still in early stages and Mamata is not likely to lose. The worst pat for the BJP is that as of now, it is losing many assembly seats where it was ahead in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections while the TMC is winning many where it had conceded ground to the BJP in 2019.
The results show that the expected consolidation of the Hindu votes has not materialized and West Bengal is one state where the divisive politics of the BJP has not found enough takers to propel it to power. It also means that Mamata has beaten anti-incumbency and won on the record of good governance, despite a vitriolic campaign by the BJP which accused the TMC of being a bhaipo-pishi party, a party of tolabaz and a corrupt party. Obviously, the people of West Bengal thought otherwise and have voted the TMC back to power. It is a decisive victory that has dented the famed election machinery of the BJP and is a huge setback for the saffron party.
