Bengal Politics
Mamata Banerjee to meet newly elected TMC MLAs in Kolkata today
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee will on Monday meet all her elected MLAs a day after her party registered a landslide victory in the West Bengal polls.
As the poll results came out, the TMC has won 213 seats of 292 seats (two seats due to be polled), even bettering its tally of the last assembly elections held in 2016.
The BJP, which was aiming to wrest power in the state for the first time, won just 77 seats.
After the meeting, which will be held at Trinamool Bhavan, Mamata will reach Raj Bhavan to meet Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
The TMC supremo on Sunday said the swearing-in ceremony of her government, which is voted back to power, will be small scale in the shadow of Covid-19.
Mamata has also demanded the central government to offer free vaccines to all people of the country or else she would hold a sit-in protest near Gandhi statue.
Amid the thumping majority of the TMC, Mamata herself lost to her lieutenant-turned political foe from the BJP, Suvendu Adhikari, by over 1,900 votes.
The Left, Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF), which had stitched an alliance hurriedly before the polls, drew almost a blank as only ISF won a seat in South 24 Parganas district.
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