Assembly Election 2021 Results Highlights

Stones have reportedly been thrown at Suvendu Adhikari's car as he was leaving the Election Commission Office after collecting his certificate.

Three TMC members are meeting the Chief Electoral Officer at the Election Commission office in Kolkata asking for a recount in Nandigram.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi congratulate Mamata-led TMC for winning the Bengal Assembly Elections.

ANI are reporting that Mamata Banerjee has won against Suvendu Adhikari by a margin of 1200 votes even though the Election Commission is yet to confirm.

Election Commission told political parties that its ban on victory processions during and after counting of votes is being flouted, and asked them to restrain their workers from violating Covid-19 guidelines.

Suvendu Adhikari's lead over Mamata Banerjee is just 6 votes after the 16th round of counting. Ony 17th and final round of counting left.

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya credited Mamata Banerjee for the TMC’s astounding performance in Bengal elections and said his party would introspect the poll results.

Suvendu Adhikari is leading by around 1,000 votes against Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, according to the latest reports, with just 2-3 rounds of counting left.

Suvendu Adhikari is leading with a thin margin against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram. As the EVM counting has just been started, there is neck and neck fight between the two rivals.

BJP Chief Dilip Ghosh reacts to the initial figures coming from the postal ballot counting. He said that the BJP is winning this election (in West Bengal).

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed that the party would form the next government in West Bengal by winning more than 200 seats, even as all exit polls except two suggested a win and hat-trick for the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.

Suvendu Adhikari is leading by around 1,000 votes against Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, according to the latest reports, with just 2-3 rounds of counting left.

As per Election Commission of India, the TMC has now crossed the magic mark of 147 seats (leads) and is at 149 leads now. BJP leads in just 70 seats. It looks as a one sided victory for the BJP.

According to the latest updates from the counting centre in Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari is leading with a margin of around 5,000 votes. The earlier margin was of 8,000 votes. Mamata Banerjee has led against Suvendu Adhikari by around 3,000 votes in the fourth round.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Home Minister Amit Shah said his party will form the next government in West Bengal after the Assembly election and a local will become the chief minister, adding that action will be initiated against all poll-related violence.

A voter turnout of 79.79 per cent was recorded in West Bengal till 5 pm on Saturday in the first phase of assembly elections in these states, the Election Commission said. Voting was held in 30 assembly constituencies in West Bengal.

Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from some areas that are voting in the first phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal on Saturday, even as the overall poll situation was peaceful with 36.09 per cent turnout recorded till 11 am, officials said.

Thirty seats, including 23 of the 40 seats in the politically crucial Jangalmahal area, vote on Saturday in the first of the eight-phase assembly elections in West Bengal. In the fiercely fought electoral contest, two questions dominate on the ground: will the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) be able to amplify the momentum it received in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in order to cross the magic figure in the state, or will it be a third straight term for chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC)?

A 45-year-old man was found hanging near his home in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Friday, triggering tension hours ahead of polling in the area, police said. The body of Lal Mohan Soren, whom the BJP claimed as their supporter, was found in a forest near his home in Bagmari in the Salboni police station area, they said.

Campaigning for Phase 1 of Assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam, that have been in full swing over the last few months, ends on Thursday, March 25. Both states are set to enter the first phase of the Assembly polls on Saturday.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has insulted West Bengal’s culture by displaying her foot while wearing saree, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh told News18 as he attempted to justify his controversial comments.

Clashes broke out between TMC and ISF supporters in the Bhangar area of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal today. At least 12 people are reportedly injured on both sides. Some of them are said to be critical, sources said. They have been shifted to SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday said according to the feedback received from the ground, 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 first phase of polling, Shah said. He exuded confidence that the saffron party will register a massive electoral victory in West Bengal by winning more than 200 seats in the 294-member Assembly and also improve its tally in Assam. Deriding Shah’s assertion, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that “the people’s verdict will be evident after votes are counted.”

The second phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal will be held tomorrow, April 1, 2021. A total of 30 constituencies will go for voting in this phase, out of which nine seats are in the East Medinipur district. Among these, Nandigram is one of the key constituencies as the chief minister of the State is in the fray. The high-stakes second phase of the Assembly elections that will witness an intense contest between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former ministerial colleague Suvendu Adhikari here.

"Why do you not utter Jai Sia Ram. Why is Sita out of your picture?" Mamata Banerjee asks BJP.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was met with 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans in Nandigram on Tuesday when she visited a TMC worker, who had been allegedly beaten up and injured. This was for the second time in the day that slogans of 'Jai Shri Ram' were raised by BJP supporters to allegedly heckle the TMC supremo. Earlier in the day, Banerjee, who has been campaigning on a wheel-chair, was chased by people raising the slogans while she was holding a road show of her own in Nandigram .