'Brute authoritarian politics vanquished’, says Mamata Banerjee on BJP's defeat

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) amid its defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) amid its defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections.

“Saluting” the people of Karnataka for their “decisive mandate in favour of change”, she said that the “brute authoritarian and majoritarian politics is vanquished” from the state.

“When people want plurality and democratic forces to win, no central design to dominate can repress their spontaneity: that is the moral of the story, lesson for tomorrow,” Mamata Banerjee wrote on Twitter.