West Bengal Assembly polls | This is Mamata Banerjee’s victory over Modi and Shah: Derek O’ Brien
The Hindu
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A day after the Trinamool Congress’s emphatic victory in West Bengal, senior party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’ Brien attributed the win to ten years of Mamata Banerjee’s people-centred governance even as he called out the role of the Election Commission in the extended poll schedule, alleging that rules were bent to favour the BJP.More Related News
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