West Bengal ECI Election Results: No rallies celebrating the victory of candidates will be allowed anywhere in West Bengal on Monday, a senior official in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said.
The official also said that the panel was looking into complaints that agents of various parties could not reach the counting centres.
“No rallies celebrating the victory of the candidates after the declaration of results will be allowed anywhere in the state today,” Special Observer Subrata Gupta told reporters.
The contest in West Bengal is seen as a bipolar fight between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The TMC under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been in power in West Bengal for 15 years.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has started the counting of votes in all the counting centers and early trends show that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has surged in the state after 15 years. BJP has already crossed the majority mark of 148 seats as per early trends carried on TV channels.
“We are dealing with the issue of agents unable to get to their centers. It will be resolved soon,” he said.
Rise of BJP in Bengal
The BJP has yet to win a parliamentary election in West Bengal. Nevertheless, she reached a remarkable milestone in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections winning 18 of Bengal’s 42 parliamentary seats, a sharp increase from the 2 seats it won in 2014.
The BJP started fighting assembly elections in West Bengal as early as 1882. But the saffron party was never in power in Bengal, where the political scene was till recently dominated by the Left, the Congress and the TMC.
No rallies celebrating the victory of the candidates after the declaration of results will be allowed anywhere in the state today.
The BJP is yet to win a parliamentary election in West Bengal, yet it achieved a remarkable milestone in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
However, in the last ten years, the BJP has seen significant growth in West Bengal and has become the primary opposition to the Trinamool Congress(TMC) by increasing its vote share and winning substantial seats in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party won 77 seats in the 2021 parliamentary elections, becoming the state’s main opposition party.
