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Narendra Modi’s BJP win election in West Bengal for first time

BJP supporters celebrate their party's lead in the Assam and West Bengal state election

Modi’s party poised for big wins in Indian state elections

BJP has never governed West Bengal. Trends released by the Election Commission of India on Monday showed the ruling party leading

‘Hegemonic power’: How Modi’s BJP won India’s Bengal for the first time

West Bengal. Early results from elections to the state’s legislature – which were held in April, but votes were counted on May 4 – show that Modi’s well-oiled election machinery is poised to deliver

Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll

BJP. Political opposition and legal experts said the election commission, which is overseeing the exercise, can no longer be viewed as an independent and neutral body. SY Quraishi, the former election commissioner of India

India loses its last left-wing government after five decades

leading in 35 seats. The state has long been a stronghold for left-wing politics and ideology. In the late 1950s, it gave the world its first democratically elected communist government, when the Communist Party

Can fish hook voters in India’s West Bengal elections?

election campaigning, every issue is constructed, and Mamata is the champion of that.” Chakraborty argued that by fiercely pushing back against these allegations, the BJP had ended up helping the governing party in Bengal make