Pathak is an MLA from Vijayraghavgarh assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district. He has divided his assembly constituency into 10 zones, 25 sectors and made 280 polling booths for the election for his evalution.
"They do anything required to ensure that no BJP candidate can file nomination…they not only threaten BJP workers but also the voters. Contracts are given out to capture booths...This is their way of doing politics in the state," the prime minister said.
Following re-polling at 696 panchayat booths, after the voting on July 8 was declared void in light of alleged rigging, booth capturing and multiple reports of electoral malfeasance and voter intimidation, the stage is set for the counting of votes in West Bengal on Tuesday.
During repolling for West Bengal panchayats in over 600 booths on Monday, a clip went viral where a woman was purportedly seen helping another cast her vote as she stood with her through the entire process in the vouting cubicle.
He further highlighted that the Calcutta High Court had previously directed the State Election Commission to ensure the presence of CCTV cameras and centralized monitoring of footage with police assistance in all polling booths. However, Adhikari alleged that these directives were not follow
A day after the violence-marred Panchayat polls, the West Bengal State Election Commission on Monday conducted re-polling at 696 polling booths, however, no fresh cases of violence were reported as it was under the supervision of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).
Ahead of the re-polling of the Panchayat elections, the voters, on Monday, queued up outside the polling booth in the Murshidabad district. According to an official statement, the re-polling will be conducted in 697 booths across five districts: Purulia, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Nadia and Sou
Following the violence during the panchayat polls in West Bengal, the State Election Commission (SEC) announced re-polling to be conducted in 697 booths spread across five districts on July 10.
"You will recollect yesterday the BJP WB delegation called on you and asked you to review CCTV/video footage to establish booths which have to be re-polled due to booth, looting, polling officers seen participating/helping in rigging/where BJP candidate agents were forced to leave or removed
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
"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