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Bengal Panchayat polls: No information was provided on sensitive booths, s
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
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
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"A festival of death": Union Minister Pramanik on Bengal panchayat polls
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Coming down heavily on the Mamata Banerjee government over the widespread violence during the panchayet elections in West Bengal on Saturday, Union Minister Nishith Pramanik said the single-phased polls were not a festival of the republic but a festival of death.
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Panchayat elections: One person "suspected" to be dead at polling booth in
Updated : 2 years, 10 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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Instead of killing poverty they are "killing the poor": West Bengal Govern
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Asking people to take violence off the purview of politics and how lack of peace will affect the new generation, he said that violence needs to be "nipped in the bud".
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West Bengal panchayat poll: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary meets victims of Murshi
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary visited the hospital in West Bengal's Murshidabad on Saturday to meet the family member of a 62-year-old man who was killed in a bombing incident following the panchayat polls.
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"CM Mamata is responsible..." Bengal LoP Adhikari demands CBI, NIA probe o
Updated : 2 years, 11 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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Violence, arson reported in West Bengal on panchayat poll day; TMC, BJP ac
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
West Bengal witnessed several incidents of violence and arson during the voting for the three-tiered panchayat polls in rural parts of the state on Saturday.
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Bengal BJP chief writes letter to HM Shah, demands Centre's intervention a
Updated : 2 years, 11 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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More than 12 people killed in violence in West Bengal on panchayat poll da
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that more than 12 people have lost their lives so far in the violence that broke out in several areas in West Bengal on panchayat poll day.
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"We won't let democracy die": JP Nadda on West Bengal Panchayat poll viole
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"BJP will not let this death of democracy happen, and we will take this fight to a decisive level in a democratic way," said BJP president JP Nadda.
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WB Panchayat polls: 3 BJP workers were shot at by TMC workers in Cooch Beh
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"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
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WB: Miscreant ran away with ballot box from polling station in Malda's Mah
Updated : 2 years, 11 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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