Union Home Minister and senior BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday stated in line with the suggestions obtained from the bottom, the saffron celebration will win 26 of the 30 seats that went to polls in the primary section of the West Bengal Assembly election. Similarly, he stated the celebration has bought clear-cut indications that it’ll win 37 of the 47 Assembly seats in Assam that went to polls in the primary section on Saturday.
Addressing a press convention at his residence right here, Shah stated the peaceable polling and the excessive voter turnouts are constructive indicators for the 2 states and thanked the voters. He additionally expressed gratitude in the direction of the Election Commission (EC) for conducting peaceable elections in Assam and violence-prone West Bengal.
According to the suggestions obtained from the celebration employees on the bottom, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win 26 of the 30 seats in West Bengal and 37 of the 47 seats in Assam in the primary section of polling, Shah stated. He exuded confidence that the saffron celebration will register an enormous electoral victory in West Bengal by profitable greater than 200 seats in the 294-member Assembly and likewise enhance its tally in Assam.
Deriding Shah’s assertion, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee stated that “the people’s verdict will be evident after votes are counted.” Without naming Shah, Banerjee questioned how such a declare may very well be made only a day after the elections had been held. The counting of votes for all eight phases of the election is slated to be taken up on May 2. “A leader today said that the BJP will win 26 of 30 seats, why did he not claim all 30, did he leave the rest for Congress and CPI(M)?” Banerjee stated, addressing a rally right here in the Chandipur constituency, adjoining to Nandigram, from the place she is contesting.
Asserting that she won’t predict something, Banerjee stated that it’s the individuals’s verdict which shall be evident after counting. “Since 84 per cent votes were polled, I can surmise that people have voted for us,” she stated.
TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien additionally stated in a tweet shortly after Shah’s press meet in Delhi, “Mind games won’t work, Mo-Sha” (a referrence to Modi-Shah).” “Try your seat prediction stunts at the Gujarat Gymkhana. This is Bengal. #KhelaHobe,” O’Brien, the senior TMC chief in any respect India degree, posted on the microblogging web site. The put up, which additionally referred to the ‘khela hobe’ (the sport shall be performed) marketing campaign of the TMC, has the hash tag of #TMCSweepsPhase1.
Meanwhile, Shah additionally appealed to the individuals of Nandigram, from the place Mamata Banerjee is contesting the polls, to vote for change and a greater way forward for the state. Rejecting the TMC’s criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Bangladesh, he stated the go to is to strengthen bilateral ties and has nothing to do with elections.
Facing as much as the star-studded BJP marketing campaign the place the celebration has fielded the prime minister, house and defence ministers in addition to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister amongst others, Mamata has been rigorously cultivating a picture of being the ‘lone fighter’ in a battle between Delhi and Bengal. With Nandigram going to the polls in the second section on April 1, together with 29 different seats, Banerjee requested TMC polling brokers to not go away the polling cubicles at any value.
Banerjee stated that she can have her eyes on her celebration’s polling brokers, warning them that she would know in case anybody works in opposition to the celebration or accepts bribes from the opposition. “I would not have said such things elsewhere, but here we are faced with traitors,” she stated.
The TMC supremo has typically referred to the Adhikari household, with out naming them, as “traitors” after celebration heavyweights Suvendu, his father Sisir and one other brother Soumendu left the celebration to affix the saffron celebration fold. Banerjee additionally claimed {that a} chief from Hyderabad has come to divide the minority votes in Bengal, Banerjee needed to know his whereabouts throughout communal riots in Delhi and Gujarat.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who had earlier talked of a doable tie-up with Islamic cleric Abbas Siddique of Furfura Sharif, has spoken of fielding candidates from some seats in the meeting elections in West Bengal. Siddique has fashioned his personal outfit ISF and has entered into an alliance with the Left Front and the Congress to battle the eight-phased meeting elections.
