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After Bengal panchayat poll violence, voters happy with re-poll under heav
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"Today, it feels like an election day. We can see the central forces today", said Anamika Mandal, who came to cast her vote at Tikiapara Primary High School in the Murshidabad district.
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WB panchayat elections: Re-polling underway in 697 booths in 5 districts
Updated : 2 years, 10 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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Adhir Chowdhury writes to BSF, seeks deployment of additional forces for r
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that 19 people were killed on the day of the Panchayat polls adding that the presence of the central security forces in and around the polling stations will ensure that voters cast their vote fearlessly.
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"We want security...," says family of victim of Panchayat poll violence in
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
After a wave of violence that claimed at least 10 lives in West Bengal during Panchayat polls on Saturday, a family member of 62-year-old Congress worker who allegedly killed in the Murshidabad demanded security.
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WB panchayat elections: Re-polling to be held in over 600 booths in 5 dist
Updated : 2 years, 10 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: BJP's Jagannath Chattopadhyay writes to SEC; demands repolling of Panc
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"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
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West Bengal Panchayat Polls: BJP MP Khagen Murmu alleges ballot rigging, d
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Alleging ballot rigging in the West Bengal panchayat polls which is marred by violence, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Khagen Murmu called for re-polling in Bengal, claiming that presiding officers and election staff were engaged in proxy voting in favour of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
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West Bengal Governor to visit Delhi, likely to meet Amit Shah
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
After violence during panchayat polls in the state, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose will visit Delhi and is likely to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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"Police confirmed 10 deaths in poll-related violence": West Bengal SEC on
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
West Bengal State Election Commission on Sunday said that as many as ten people had lost their lives in the violence that broke on the Panchayat Polls day in the state.
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Anurag Thakur condemns Panchayat election violence in West Bengal
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur on Sunday expressed deep concern over the election violence in West Bengal on the day of the Panchayat Polls.
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WB: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury meets family of victim of Panchayat poll violen
Updated : 2 years, 10 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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"No casualty where central forces were deployed": BSF after violence in WB
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Deputy Inspector General of BSF SS Guleria, while speaking to ANI said that no causality was reported at the places where the central forces were deployed.
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