BJP constituted five -member fact-finding committee, including party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, which will visit Dinhata in Coochbehar and the other violence-affected areas in the state.
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.
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.
A polling booth at Baravita Primary School in Sitai, Cooch Behar has been allegedly vandalised and ballot papers were set on fire after voting began for the single-phase panchayat polls in West Bengal.
Ahead of the Panchayat election in West Bengal, the house of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate was attacked allegedly by Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday.
"The injured in the Dinhata violence are being shifted to PK Shah Hospital in Coochbehar under the instruction of West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose," said an official.
As per the information given by Dinhata Police officials, five people received bullet injuries in an inter-party struggle on Tuesday morning, and one individual, identified as Babu Hoque, passed away.
Leader Of Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari hit out at Trinamool Congress (TMC) for the alleged attack on Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nisith Pramanik by TMC workers at the BDO office during scrutiny of nomination papers at Dinhata, Coochbehar on Saturday.