- Associated Press
- A barricade is seen outside a vote counting center a day before the announcement of election results to the state of West Bengal, in Kolkata on May 12, 2011.
The Wall Street Journal’s India bureau is live-blogging the election results for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry. Stay with us as reporters in New Delhi bring you the results and commentary on what they mean.
11:21 pm | by Tripti Lahiri, lead blog writer
Even as election results are still coming in from this year's state elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has ratcheted up campaigning for next year's vote in her state, which has seen farmer protests in recent days, with a two-page ad in papers today. Some points (punctuation is the ad's) she makes on law and order:
"The era of 'jungle raj,' goonda tax, 'mafia rule' and 'anarchy' inherited in legacy, ends, entirely due to the 'missionary and struggling' efforts of Hon'ble Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati Ji. People coming out of the suffocating 'jungle raj', breathing in, today, the whiff of fresh air of the 'rule of law by law.'
11:23 pm | by Prabha Natarajan, reporter
The big day is here, finally, after nearly a month of waiting for some states--many states voted on April 13, remember, and Assam voted before that.
Lots at stake for the ruling Congress party and the Left parties in India.
11:26 pm | by Prabha Natarajan, reporter
Counting began at 8 a.m., and initial leads are out. Television statio [...]
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