{"id":6486,"date":"2011-05-13T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2011-05-13T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T01:24:04","slug":"mamata-jaya-crush-left-dmk-congress-sweeps-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2011\/05\/13\/mamata-jaya-crush-left-dmk-congress-sweeps-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata, Jaya crush Left, DMK; Congress sweeps Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi, May 13 (IANS): India was poised to get two more women chief ministers as Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s tsunami destroyed 34 years of Left rule in West Bengal while veteran J. Jayalalithaa pounded the corruption-tainted DMK in Tamil Nadu in a manner not predicted even by pundits.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress, on the winning side in West Bengal but a loser in Tamil Nadu, managed a remarkable hat trick in Assam after decimating a divided opposition, but huffed and puffed before narrowly overcoming a fighting Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>In Puducherry, the last of five provinces which went to the polls in April-May, the Congress was unseated by a breakaway group which had teamed up with Jayalalithaa&#8217;s AIADMK.<\/p>\n<p>Although it put up a brave face, there was more bad news for the Congress in the two Lok Sabha by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress was humiliated in Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh &#8212; a development bound to cost the party dearly in the politically crucial state &#8212; and defeated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bastar in Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n<p>In Kadapa, the Congress candidate came second but lost his deposit after Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, son of the late chief minister Y.S.R. Rajasekhara Reddy, retained the seat with a record margin of 543,053 votes &#8212; three times the winning margin of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Congress will have to introspect very seriously because it must be feeling a southern discomfort,&#8217; political analyst G.V.L. Narasimha Rao told IANS. &#8216;Assam is very good news for the Congress but it deserves no credit for Bengal. The south seems to be slipping away.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Southern India had accounted for a solid 60 of the Lok Sabha seats the Congress won in 2009 &#8212; a contribution that helped it retain power in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Without doubt, the most dramatic of victories Friday came from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>Riding on a wave of discontent against the Communists who had been in power in West Bengal since 1977, Banerjee&#8217;s Trinamool Congress delivered a mortal blow to the Left. The Trinamool bagged 181 of the state&#8217;s 294 seats while its ally Congress won 42. The Left got 61 seats, one of its worst performances in decades.<\/p>\n<p>As tens of thousands of Trinamool supporters celebrated the fascinating win, particularly outside the Kolkata residence of Banerjee, Biman Bose of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) admitted it was a rout.<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee, who is expected to resign as the railway minister to move to Kolkata to be the first woman chief minister of West Bengal, met Governor M.K. Narayanan Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinamool wave crushed the Marxists all over West Bengal, even in areas where the Communists had never before tasted defeat.<br \/> Even Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, whose aggressive policy of industrialization sparked off protests in rural areas that helped Banerjee to ultimately cripple the Left, was humbled in Jadavpore.<\/p>\n<p>Equally sensational was the AIADMK juggernaut in Tamil Nadu, which swept away the DMK and its allies that included the Congress. After a landslide victory, AIADMK leader Jayalalitha vowed to rebuild the state even as the party made it clear that it would not share power with its allies.<\/p>\n<p>Needing 118 seats to form a government, the AIADMK had captured 153 seats on its own while its alliance, which included actor Vijayakanth&#8217;s MDMK and the two Communist parties, had crossed the 200-mark.<\/p>\n<p>A stunned DMK retreated into silence.<\/p>\n<p>AIADMK MP V. Maitreyan said the Tamil Nadu vote was against &#8216;family rule&#8217; &#8212; referring to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, his son and Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, central minister and elder son M.K. Alagiri and daughter M. Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP who faces possible arrest in the spectrum allocation scam.<\/p>\n<p>The only cheer for Congress came in Assam where it bagged 78 of the 126 seats, a vast improvement on the last election, to come back to power for the third consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>While Congress Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi credited it to good governance, the opposition said the main reason were its divided ranks.<\/p>\n<p>In Kerala too the Congress tasted victory but after many anxious hours &#8212; managing a majority of just one seat in a house of 140.<\/p>\n<p>The new chief minister is expected to be Oommen Chandy of the Congress, which heads the victorious United Democratic Front (UDF). Most players in the state credited the Marxists&#8217; stunning show to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who at age 87 proved to be the Left&#8217;s biggest vote catcher.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/W4iEpKlJnmM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/W4iEpKlJnmM\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/W4iEpKlJnmM\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, May 13 (IANS): India was poised to get two more women chief ministers as Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s tsunami destroyed 34 years of Left rule in West Bengal while veteran&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/05\/mamata-jaya-crush-left-dmk-congress-sweeps-assam\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[32,330,34,41],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-imphal","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-manipur","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}