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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: BJP's Jagannath Chattopadhyay writes to SEC; demands repolling of Panc
Updated : 2 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 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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"No casualty where central forces were deployed": BSF after violence in WB
Updated : 2 years, 8 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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Bengal Panchayat polls: No information was provided on sensitive booths, s
Updated : 2 years, 8 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, 8 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, 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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Instead of killing poverty they are "killing the poor": West Bengal Govern
Updated : 2 years, 8 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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