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Counting day eve: Parties try different ways to beat the blues
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Counting day eve: Parties try different ways to beat the blues

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From seeking divine intervention to staying confined to their natives to visiting party offices, leaders in the four states – West Bengal , Tamil Nadu , Assam and Kerala – are gearing up for the results on Monday. Several leaders sought divine intervention ahead of counting day. BJP’s Purnima Chakraborty offered prayers in Kolkata , while Ghatal candidate Sital Kapat visited a local temple. In contrast, TMC leaders projected calm confidence. Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim said the party was preparing for a decisive mandate, asserting that CM Mamata Banerjee would return for a fourth term. In Pandabeswar, TMC’s Narendranath Chakraborty kept away from the political buzz, tending to his garden. “People know my work,” he said, expressing confidence in a sweeping victory for his party. The BJP struck a different tone. Arjun Singh, contesting from Noapara, spoke of restrained celebrations, promising “tradition over noise” with sweets instead of loud festivities.…

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