Assembly elections unseated local governments in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Here is a roundup of what readers had to say about the election results in these three states:
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- Trinamool Congress party supporters celebrate Mamata Banerjee’s win over CPI (Marxist).
India's Communist party suffered the biggest defeat, losing its 34-year control of West Bengal. The Left, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), lost to the All India Trinamool Congress under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee.
"Congratulations to Mamata Didi. Now is the harder part. She will have to deliver instead of just agitating and making grand promises," noted a reader who signed just as "Anonymous" in a comment on India Real Time's live blog.
"The massive victory of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal is really historic," said reader "R. Devarajan," also commenting on the live blog. "After winning the elections about three decades ago the Marxixsts systematically destroyed the democratic institutions in West Bengal." The reader sa [...]
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