Kerala: * Oommen Chandy on Friday submitted his resignation following the defeat of Congress party in the elections. Or so the narrative went. Banerjee, for one, has already signalled her support.
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Dhaka: Stunned by the thumping victory of BJP in the Assam state elections, Bangladesh has today demanded that elections should be held again in the state. The BJP won just 65 of these, the Congress secured 114.
The Left has ideologically become irrelevant globally. The party had won 18 seats in 2011.
However, in 2009, he lost the next Lok Sabha election from Dibrugarh constituency as AGP suffered a debacle.
As regards the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Naqvi exuded confidence that the BJP will win the polls there.
The Parliamentary Board also congratulated the party karyakartas in Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry for their honest and relentless efforts which have laid the foundation for the future expansion and growth of the party.
The tally of BJP which had one seat in the outgoing House, has gone upto three with state party president Dilip Ghosh winning from Kharagpur.
“The party morale is at its lowest ebb”, he said.
“Congress lost both the states of Kerala and Assam”.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi won the key constituency of Titabar defeating his nearest BJP rival Kamakhya Prasad Tasa by over 405 votes while BJP chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal won the Majuli (ST) constituency defeating Congress rival sitting MLA Rajib Lochan Pegu by 1,510 votes. He said the BJP was on a comeback trail in that state which now has a Congress government.
BJP’s alliance partners, AGP and BPF, will meet the next day to elect Sonowal as the leader of the alliance, he said.
Party general secretary Mukul Wasnik said state leaders were responsibile for state-specific results.
Leading the alliance, BJP won 60 of the 126 Assam Assembly seats. “Will the Congress evolve into a structured party with a galaxy of leaders or will it remain a dynastic party?” he said.
The BJP has invested significant political capital to make inroads into opposition strongholds, and increased its tiny seat share in West Bengal. “Based on current results, UPA will be able to retain only 2 out of the 4 seats while others (AIADMK) will win the rest of the two seats”.
The next two political parties, albeit a poor second and third, are the Left and the Congress in terms of vote share.
Latest statistics released by McKinsey & Co project India’s growth over the next decade to be led primarily by eight high-performing states – Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
In Tamil Nadu, where contest was seen in 234 seats, J Jayalalitha’s AIADMK won 134 seats while the DMK got 98 seats. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry had single-phase polling on May 16. All these to the efficiency of the BJP cadres, something which the other parties do not want to acknowledge. While this has granted the party some veto power over the BJP government’s reform agenda, it’s far from the kind of bulwark that’ll allow a nationwide resurgence.
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The Left Democratic Front (LDF) won 91 of the 140 seats, with the CPI-M itself grabbing 58.
