Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee looks set to retain power for a third straight time period along with her occasion Trinamool Congress crossing the midway mark in the intently contested meeting election 2021 in the state, the traits advised after early hours of counting of votes on Sunday (May 2, 2021).
The Trinamool Congress was at present main in 168 seats, whereas the BJP was main in 101 seats at 11. 25 AM. However, for essentially the most a part of early traits, each events had been neck and neck as the newest leads proceed to come in.Â
However, the Chief Minister herself is trailing in Nandigram by over 8,000 votes, in accordance to early traits. Banerjee is contesting towards the BJP’s Suvendhu Adhikari, her ex-aide, whose December defection triggered a flood of exits from the Trinamool Congress.
Counting of votes for the West Bengal Assembly elections started at 8 am on Sunday amid strict well being protocols, as it’s going down amid a raging second wave of COVID-19. People throughout the nation have their eyes mounted on the West Bengal election 2021 outcomes because the BJP looks to break into the Opposition’s final bastion in the East.
The early traits confirmed that although chief minister Mamata Banerjee is trailing behind BJP`s Suvendu Adhikary in Nandigram, the ruling Trinamool Congress is having an edge over the BJP. The preliminary traits of 292 seats present that the Trinamool is main in 181 seats whereas the BJP is main in 86 seats and the Congress + on 3 seats.
The 2021 meeting election has been a serious check for the ruling Trinamool Congress because the saffron brigade had put in all its may to make its footmark for the primary time in West Bengal. But if early traits are taken as a sign, then Mamata Banerjee appears to have an edge over her rival.
United Front – an alliance of Left Front, Congress and the newly shaped Indian Secular Front, is main in simply 3 seats.
There was no election in two meeting constituencies because the respective candidates died earlier than the polls. Presently the counting of postal ballots is happening the place primarily the federal government officers on election obligation and voters above 80 years of age exercised their franchise.
There is one facet that may make chief minister Mamata Banerjee completely satisfied. As counting of the postal ballots present Trinamool having an edge over the BJP, additionally it is indicative that the federal government workers who turned their face away from the ruling occasion are displaying indicators of coming again into the Trinamool fold. In the final Lok Sabha elections, on the premise of postal ballots, the BJP was forward in 41 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats.
On the opposite hand, Trinamool heavyweights like state training minister Partha Chatterjee, PWD minister Arup Biswas, power minister Sovondeb Chattopadhayay and panchayat minister Subtrata Mukherjee are main from their respective constituencies however tourism minister Goutam Deb is trailing until the final report got here in.
On the opposite hand, BJP heavyweights like Locket Chatterjee, Swapan Dasgupta, Mukul Roy have been main from their constituencies however Babul Supriyo has been trailing behind TMC`s Arup Biswas from Tollygunje constituency.
The formidable BJP did intense campaigning with the objective to topple the incumbent TMC authorities in the state. To proceed its stride in Bengal particularly after an amazing end result in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in the state, the occasion introduced Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, occasion president JP Nadda and lots of others for campaigning.
‘Tolabaazi’’ (extortion), `lower cash`, syndicate raj and appeasement politics had been just a few subjects over which the BJP focused the ruling TMC. Mamata selected Nandigram over her dwelling turf Bhabanipur seat this time to check her destiny in the 2021 elections.Â
Several surveys gave an edge to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). In West Bengal, all exit polls predicted that the BJP would make main inroads and some additionally mentioned that the occasion would emerge victoriously. Â
Times Now-C voter exit ballot predicted 158 seats for TMC, 115 for BJP and 19 for others. ABP-C Voter predicted TMC to get 152-164 seats, BJP 109-121 seats and Left-Congress alliance 14-25 seats. According to Republic-CNX exit ballot, BJP with 138-148 seats has an edge over TMC which is predicted to get 128-138 seats.Â
As per India TV- People`s Pulse, BJP is predicted to get 173-192 seats whereas TMC might be diminished to 64-88 seats and the Left-Congress alliance will get 7-12 seats. Axis My India predicted a hung meeting in Bengal with the ruling TMC anticipated to get 130-156 seats and BJP 134-160 seats.
