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WB panchayat elections: Re-polling underway in 697 booths in 5 districts
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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
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WB panchayat elections: Re-polling to be held in over 600 booths in 5 dist
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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WB: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury meets family of victim of Panchayat poll violen
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
West Bengal Pradesh Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress over deaths in separate incidents of violence that marred Panchayat polls across the state on Saturday.
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Panchayat elections: One person "suspected" to be dead at polling booth in
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"One person is suspected to be dead and yet to be declared by the doctors. The bomb hit the victim's head. He has been sent to Basanti rural hospital," said Dibakar Das, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO).
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"CM Mamata is responsible..." Bengal LoP Adhikari demands CBI, NIA probe o
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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
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Bengal BJP chief writes letter to HM Shah, demands Centre's intervention a
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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WB: Miscreant ran away with ballot box from polling station in Malda's Mah
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Several other incidents of ballot box and ballot paper looting and destruction were reported from numerous polling booths in the State.
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"Centre should intervene": Suvendu Adhikari demands President's Rule amid
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Attacking the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for violence during the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal, State Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said that the state is burning and the Central government should intervene with Article 355 or Article 356 (President's Ru
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Bengal Panchayat Elections: Central and state security forces deployed on
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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"Death toll is mounting": TMC slams opposition parties amid violence in WB
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Taking a jibe, TMC said that the death toll due to the election-related incidents is mounting under the "close supervision of Central Forces".
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West Bengal panchayat polls: Voting underway amid violence; polling suspen
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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WB panchayat polls: Polling agent killed in attack, claims BJP candidate
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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