Financial markets closed today, due to Maharashtra assembly elections
The financial markets will resume on Tuesday.
The financial markets will resume on Tuesday.
Prices have been on the rise since May 20, a day after the final phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections ended.
It appears that Lord Ayyappa, the deity of the Sabarimala shrine has blessed not the ones who vociferously campaigned for him.
Highest vote margin has been registered by CM Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Diamond Harbour candidate Abhishek Banerjee.
For Ranaghat parliamentary constituency where 40 per cent of the total population is made up of the Matua community, the BJP candidate Jagannath Sarkar won the seat with a whooping margin of 2,33,428 votes.
In 2014, Trinamul Congress won Dum Dum seat by a margin of 1,54,934 votes and controls five out of the seven assembly segments.
Tamluk recorded the highest polling percentage at 82.99 per cent, followed by Bishnupur (81.90 per cent), Jhargram (81.68 per cent), Ghatal (80.35 per cent), Kanthi (80.06 per cent), Purulia (78.64 per cent), Midnapore (78.17 per cent) and Bankura (75.68 per cent).
"Kishore Kumar refused to buckle under pressure, which resulted in his songs being banned from the All India Radio (AIR)," said PM Modi.
One local youth said, "We are not against Didi, but we are against her local leaders who are engaged in endless corruption activities.”
Purulia had been a bastion of Forward Block for decades, but since the TMC government came into power in the state in 2011, erosion of its base started.
