As West Bengal police went to arrest an alleged accused in Saturday's violence in Basirhat's Sandeshkhali, the local women resisted and a scuffle broke out on Sunday.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday rejected the exit poll predictions about the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal and urged the party workers to stay strong and not be swayed by these deceptive tactics.
In a setback for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) party in West Bengal, the exit polls on Saturday predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will move ahead of Mamata Banerjee's TMC in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
The exit polls on Saturday have predicted a comfortable victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency Locket Chatterjee expressed confidence in BJP winning more than 30 seats in West Bengal after voting concluded for the seventh phase of parliamentary elections in the state on Saturday.
The seventh and the final phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections on June 1 across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh saw a voter turnout of 58.34 per cent till 5 pm, the Election Commission (ECI) said on Saturday.
After the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were looted by a local mob in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas, Kolkata Police on Saturday claimed that the incident happened in the morning before the polling process began and said that legal action has been taken against the miscreants.
A clash broke out between TMC and BJP workers in Meraganj village in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Saturday, leaving in several people injured.