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.
West Bengal BJP chief and Lok Sabha candidate from Balurghat Sukant Majumdar hit out at the West Bengal Government over the "deteriorating law and order" situation in Bengal as violent clashes erupted between the TMC and ISF on the day of polling in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election
"Voting is our right, and we must exercise it. Everyone is coming to cast their vote. Voting is going on well and peacefully, so we are expecting the best," Jahan told ANI after casting her vote.
Accusing the Trinamool Congress of indulging in violence on voting day to save its "corrupt" regime, CPI (M) West Bengal secretary and former MP Mohammad Salim on Thursday appealed the people to cast their vote for peace.
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Voting began at 7 am in West Bengal's nine seats including-- Barasat, Basirhat, Diamond Harbour, Dum Dum, Jaynagar, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar, and Mathurapur.