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Tuesday, May 4, 2021,
New Delhi
The stunning election results in West Bengal demand to the minutely parsed, which they will be over the next few days. But there is also a case for looking beyond such things as the reasons for the TMC’s extraordinary triumph, the failure of the BJP to win despite its frenzied rhetoric, and the humiliating collapse of the Left and the Congress, which have been pushed from the margins into the political wasteland, with not even one seat to show between themselves.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The BJP, which had assumed power in 71 per cent of the country’s States in 2017, has come down to just 35 per cent hold barely two years later.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The Jharkhand result has established that the BJP is losing its political sheen across the country, and that the opposition parties just have to be patient in continuing the pattern of broad alliances to trounce the saffron party. Equally, parties like the Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka, and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) should also learn from the Jharkhand lesson, undo their hasty act of snapping alliances after just one defeat.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The ruling BJP was ousted from power in Jharkhand, as the JMM-Congress-RJD combine swept the Assembly elections, leading in 47 of the 81 seats that went to the polls in December 2019. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha is expected to form a coalition government with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015,
New Delhi
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said on February 4 that former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan was pitted against him over the issue after he spoke about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Sunday, October 19, 2014,
New Delhi
The BJP is set to form a government on its own in Haryana, while it will emerge as the single largest party in Maharashtra and will have to look at partnership with Shiv Sena or NCP. The Congress is going out of power in two of its states.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014,
New Delhi
Early trends in bypolls across the country have come as a rude shock for the BJP, as it faces some losses in Gujarat and Rajasthan, while its rivals SP and TMC were ahead in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
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Sunday, March 16, 2014,
Chennai
The DMK virtually rejected an alliance with the Congress by unilterally announcing its list of 35 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, even while renominating 2G scam accused A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran. Party chief M Karunanidhi released the list of party candidates for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It left five seats to its allies, VCK, IUML, MMK and PT.
