West Bengal has seen several incidents of violence around the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls as well as after, including one where crude bombs were allegedly hurled at a Block Development Office (BDO) at Ahmadpur in Birbhum district.
West Bengal has seen several incidents of violence around the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls as well as after, including one where crude bombs were allegedly hurled at a Block Development Office (BDO) at Ahmadpur in Birbhum district.
West Bengal minister and ruling Trinamool Congress leader Javed Ahmed Khan hit out at the BJP over the latter's allegations of violence around the filing of nominations for the upcoming panchayat elections in the state.
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"Every time there are elections in West Bengal, violence erupts. But there is no attempt to stop the violence because the party in power is doing it," Ghosh alleged.
Coming down heavily on the ruling Trinamool Congress over the incidents of violence around the filing of nominations for the upcoming panchayat elections in West Bengal, Union Minister of State Minister Meenakshi Lekhi on Sunday said the government was wilfully violating court orders and a s
After paying a visit to violence-hit Canning in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said that he was "deeply distressed" with the clashes which took place on the last day of filing nominations for the panchayat elections.
A clash was reported between two groups of Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers outside the Block Development Office in Canning in West Bengal's South 24 Paraganas on Wednesday over the filing of nominations for the upcoming state panchayat polls.
"The decision that has come this evening regarding the violence that took place during the filing of nominations for Panchayat elections is very clear," Suvendu Adhikari said.
The nomination process for the upcoming panchayat elections in West Bengal was marred by ongoing violence on Thursday, as the ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition parties engaged in a war of words.
Denying her party's hand in the violence around the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls, the Bengal CM said, "Often, more than one member of a family file nominations for these elections. We are not involved in any way in the violence in Islampur and Chopra (in Uttar Dinajpur di