Assembly election 2026 results LIVE: M.K. Stalin steps down as Tamil Nadu CM; ‘People’s will is supreme, we respect the mandate,’ says TMC’s Mahua Moitra
Kolkata: The BJP whitewashed the Trinamool Congress in nine of the 23 districts of West Bengal, racking up all 68 seats these regions had to offer on its way to paint the State saffron in the watershed election. As the party marched to power in the State for the first time, the mandate in these nine districts – from north Bengal’s hills to the central part of the south – has shown that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had correctly predicted in his campaign trail that TMC would fail to open its account in multiple districts. The BJP won 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal Assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule as it was decimated to around 80 in the 294-strong Assembly. The result also marked the BJP’s decisive breach of its last major eastern bastion, completing its saffron arc across ‘Anga, Banga and Kalinga’ (Bihar, Bengal and Odisha). At the very top of the BJP’s performance chart is the Purba Medinipur district, where its most prominent poll …
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