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NEW DELHI: “Counting will begin in the morning of May 4. Ballot box will open at 8 am, first round will be over at 9 and second round at 10. Counting will be over at 1 pm and it will be ta ta, good-bye to didi.” Thus spoke Union home minister Amit Shah at one…

Kolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee‘s residence in Kolkata’s Kalighat and her office in Nabanna were placed under an unprecedented security lockdown on Monday, even as Bengal’s chief secretary Dushyant Nariala instructed all departmental heads to ensure no official documents are removed, damaged or copied without authorisation.Long before the final results of the assembly polls were…

In West Bengal’s Alipurduars constituency, BJP’s Paritosh Das defeated TMC’s Suman Kanjilal by 70,420 votes. Das got 1,43,242 votes while Kanjilal got 72,822 votes.Alipurduars is a general (unreserved) constituency in Alipurduar district of West Bengal. In 2026, the candidates include Suman Kanjilal of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Paritosh Das of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),…

In the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026, Dr. Pranat Tudu of the Bharatiya Janata Party registered a clear victory in Binpur (Assembly Constituency 237), defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Birbaha Hansda by a margin of 22,977 votes.Tudu secured 1,07,238 votes after all 22 rounds of counting, while Hansda polled 84,261 votes.Binpur (ST), Assembly Constituency No. 237,…

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Entally (163), Sandipan Saha of the All India Trinamool Congress secured victory with 94,427 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dr. Priyanka Tibrewal, who polled 60,421 votes. TMC won by a margin of 34,006 votes in the constituency. CPI(M)’s Abdul Rauf finished third with 4,904 votes, while…

Puducherry CM N Rangasamy NEW DELHI: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is poised to return to power in Puducherry and become the Union territory’s first incumbent government to secure re-election since Congress accomplished the feat in 2006.Counting for the April 9 assembly polls was held on Monday, with the election recording an 89.87% turnout—the highest…

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) candidate Srinath secured a decisive victory over Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader P. Geetha Jeevan, winning by a margin of 37,731 votes. Srinath polled 1,00,536 votes, while Geetha Jeevan secured 62,805 votes, marking a clear win for TVK in the contest.Thoothukkudi, a major port city in southern Tamil Nadu, has traditionally…

NEW DELHI: As results take clearer shape on Monday, the 2026 assembly elections are delivering a political jolt few had fully anticipated. From a cinematic upheaval in Tamil Nadu to a decisive saffron surge in West Bengal, the verdict is throwing up headline-grabbing shocks and unsettling long-held assumptions about who holds power and how.What is…

Utpal Borah of the BJP emerged victorious in the election, securing a total of 96582 votes. He defeated Congress candidate Sankar Jyoti Kutum by a decisive margin of 52722 votes.In the Gohpur constituency, BJP candidate Utpal Borah won against Congress’s Sankar Jyoti Kutum in a closely watched contest.Statewide, exit polls indicate a strong performance by…

In Khardaha, Kalyan Chakraborti of the Bharatiya Janata Party won with 97,752 votes, defeating Devadeep Purohit of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), who secured 73,266 votes, by a margin of 24,486 votes.Khardaha is an assembly seat in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal (No. 109). It forms part of the Dum Dum Lok Sabha…