As the Trinamool Congress inched towards a landslide victory in West Bengal, politicians from several parties have praised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for steering her party to success despite an aggressive poll campaign by the BJP.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, who spearheads attacks on the centre in Maharashtra, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “didi, o, didi” campaign remarks. He also called Ms Banerjee the “Tigress of Bengal”.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated Ms Banerjee as well as the people of Bengal for the massive win.
“Congratulations Mamata Banerjee didi for landslide victory. What a fight! Congratulations to the people of WB,” he tweeted.
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool is ahead in over 200 seats (File)1New Delhi:
As the Trinamool Congress inched towards a landslide victory in West Bengal, politicians from several parties have praised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for steering her party to success despite an aggressive poll campaign by the BJP.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, who spearheads attacks on the centre in Maharashtra, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “didi, o, didi” campaign remarks. He also called Ms Banerjee the “Tigress of Bengal”.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated Ms Banerjee as well as the people of Bengal for the massive win.
“Congratulations Mamata Banerjee didi for landslide victory. What a fight! Congratulations to the people of WB,” he tweeted.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, one of the foremost critics of the BJP, congratulated the Trinamool chief for the win despite the “thoroughly partisan” Election Commission.
“Heartiest congratulations to Mamata Banerjee didi and everyone in Trinamool for the remarkable victory in West Bengal. The BJP and thoroughly partisan Election Commission threw everything including the kitchen sink at you and you prevailed. All the best for the next 5 years,” he tweeted.
The ruling Trinamool either won or is leading in more than 200 seats, which is way over the majority mark. The BJP, which had paralyzed the Trinamool by winning 18 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, is ahead over 80 constituencies.
Bengal saw the longest-ever get assembly elections spread over eight phases. Ms Banerjee had alleged that the Election Commission had taken the decision at the behest of the BJP, which rules at the center.
The Trinamool and the BJP ran a bitter, no-holds-barred campaign that defied Covid safety rules as well as the poll code.
Preceding the elections, Ms Banerjee’s Trinamool had lost scores of senior leaders as they joined the BJP. Despite depleted strength, the Trinamool has scored its third Bengal poll win in a row.
