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Saturday, May 14, 2011, Chandigarh, India
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The States verdict 2011
Didi sweeps Bengal, Amma Tamil Nadu
Left out in the cold, courtesy Mamata; 
loses Kerala too
n Gogoi gets third term in Assam n UPA score 3-2
New Delhi, May 13
The results of Assembly elections declared on Friday signal a vote for change and a vote against corruption and poor governance. The spectacular rout of the Left in West Bengal and of the DMK in Tamil Nadu, however, overshadowed an equally spectacular vote for continuity in Assam.

Editorial: Steamroller victories

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee flashes the victory sign in Kolkata on Friday. — PTI

Jagan passes LS test
n Pulls off a stunning victory in Kadapa bypoll by over 5 lakh votes
n His mother wins Pulivendula Assembly seat by record margin
Hyderabad, May 13
The massive victory of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in a byelection in Andhra Pradesh may well turn out to be a game-changer in a state plagued by political uncertainty.

Jagan Mohan Reddy with his supporters

The States verdict 2011
Why bengal booted out left AFTER 34 YRS
Didi set to be state’s first woman Chief Minister
Kolkata, May 13
Mamata Banerjee, who had defeated CPM stalwart Somnath Chatterjee in the 1984 general election, stormed out of the Congress in 1996 after accusing it of being a stooge of the Left Front. Two years later she formed her own political party, Trinamool Congress, designed its logo herself and vowed to throw the communists out of power. Thirteen years later, today the relatively young political party achieved just that and stormed into the Writers’ Building with a landslide victory.

The iron lady returns
Chennai, May 13
The J Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK front struck the DMK-Congress combine like a tsunami and won a landslide victory in Tamil Nadu Assembly elections today, sweeping everything on its way, including the freebies, cash-for-votes and caste politics.

Jaya for economic blockade on Lanka
LTTE celebrates Cong decimation

AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa gestures to her party supporters from the balcony of her Poes Garden house in Chennai on Friday. — PTI

Kerala heads towards political uncertainty
Cong with its 38 seats may not be able to withstand pressures from small parties
The voters of Kerala yet again reaffirmed the three-decade-old electoral trend in the state of changing the government every five years. In a photo-finish, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) today unseated the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), winning 72 seats in the 140-member Assembly, the thinnest majority margin in the last four decades.