Assembly Elections 2021 Live Updates: Actor Mithun Chakraborty joins BJP forward of Bengal polls

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and former state minister-turned-BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari. (File Photo)

Over the years, West Bengal and the nation have discovered to not underestimate Mamata Banerjee. A fiery chief in disarming sari and chappals, she took lathis and extra to do the not possible and topple the Left Front within the state. A decade therefore, Mamata finds herself in the identical spot, and the nation is once more watching. Does the two-time Chief Minister nonetheless have the battle in her to cease one other opponent, far mightier, over the course of an election unfold out longer than a month, aiming for what not appears not possible?
If the Trinamool supremo retains energy, she would be part of the handful of political leaders within the nation to have defeated the Narendra Modi-led BJP, cementing her place as one of many tallest Opposition leaders at a time that the Congress is doddering. If the BJP wins, West Bengal would be part of the record of states the get together sees as essential to its ideological framework to go its method.

At a time when the Congress is locked in a bitter tussle with the DMK over seat-sharing in Tamil Nadu, there’s pressure within the get together in Assam over allocation of seats to accomplice AIUDF.
There have been tense scenes and slogan-shouting by a bit of the get together staff on the Congress workplace, within the presence of get together chief Ripun Bora and Mahila Congress nationwide president Sushmita Dev, in Guwahati on Saturday. Sources mentioned Dev is upset over the allocation of some seats to the AIUDF in her stronghold of Barak Valley.
Of the 15 Assembly seats in Barak Valley, comprising the Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, the Congress had received three final time whereas the AIUDF had received 4. All the three seats in Hailakandi district have been received by AIUDF and the get together is claiming these as a part of the seat-sharing deal.