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NEW DELHI — The ruling Congress party and its allies weathered a string of corruption scandals to win three major state elections Friday — ousting Communists from two strongholds in the process — but voters still showed they would punish for graft.
The southern state of Tamil Nadu rejected Congress’ regional ally for re-election after some of its top officials were implicated in one of the past year’s biggest scandals involving the cut-rate sale of cellphone licenses.
The most-watched race was in India’s fourth-most- populous state of West Bengal, where Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress toppled a 34-year Communist- led government.
