SS Guleria, DIG BSF said that BSF has written several letters to the state election commission seeking information on sensitive polling booths but no information was provided except on June 7, when they were informed of just the numbers of such booths but nothing about their location or a
Coming down heavily on the Mamata Banerjee government over the widespread violence during the panchayet elections in West Bengal on Saturday, Union Minister Nishith Pramanik said the single-phased polls were not a festival of the republic but a festival of death.
Training his guns at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the election-related violence during the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal, state Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday demanded a probe into the incidents by Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) and National I
As the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal were marred by poll-related violence, Bharatiya Janata Party state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, demanding the intervention of the Central government.
"From the morning our workers were not allowed to enter the booths. They were beaten in every place. One woman in the village has got a bullet injury on her stomach, one of our workers also got a bullet injury on his chest. There were instances of bombing and firing as well. Another man got
To conduct a fair, safe and impartial election for 3,317 Gram Panchayats, 341 Panchayat Samitis and 20 Zila Parishads in West Bengal on Saturday, security forces from Centre as well as the state are deployed on all 61,636 polling booths.
Amid incidents of violence during voting for the Panchayat election across West Bengal, workers of the state BJP on Saturday staged a protest outside the State Election Commission office in Kolkata.
A booth agent of an independent candidate and a polling agent of a BJP were allegedly killed in two separate violence-related incidents during voting for single-phase panchayat elections in West bengal on Saturday.
This is the most sacred day for democracy...The election must be through ballots and not bullets," the Governor said while talking to the reporters in the State. Around 5.67 crore voters are likely to exercise their franchise to choose representatives for nearly 928 seats across 22 zilla
BJP state chief Sukanta Majumdar alleged "TMC hoologanism crossed all limits" and that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with the Chief Electoral Officer of the state were "responsible" for murders.
Earlier, Trinamool Congress alleged that three of its party workers have been murdered in multiple incidents of violence in West Bengal after polling for the single-phase panchayat elections began in the state on Saturday morning.