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One injured in Bathinda due to poll violence
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bathinda (Punjab) [India], May 19 (ANI): One person was injured after clashes between two groups outside a polling booth in Talwandi Sabo Assembly segment under Bathinda parliamentary constituency broke out during the last phase of voting on Sunday.
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Yechury speaks to CEC, alleges widespread rigging by TMC in West Bengal
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 19 (ANI): CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday spoke to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora regarding alleged widespread rigging in the last phase of polling in West Bengal by the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and asked why no efforts we
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Compare Bengal, UP: Yogi's barb at Mamata over poll violence
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday exuded confidence of getting full majority in the Lok Sabha elections asserting that BJP will be winning over 300 seats on its own. He also took a jibe at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
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Escaped safely only because CRPF was there: Amit Shah on Kolkata violence
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 15 (ANI): A day after his mega road show in Kolkata was marred by violence, BJP president Amit Shah held Mamata Banerjee accountable for it, asserting that he wouldn't have been able to escape if CRPF was not deployed in the area. Shah alleged that West Bengal Polic
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EC to hold meeting with WB observers on poll violence today
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 15 (ANI): Election Commission will hold a meeting with West Bengal observers on poll violence in the state at 11.30 am today via video conferencing.
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West Bengal: EC removes Bankura DM from his post with immediate effect pos
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): In the aftermath of violence marred polls in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India on Sunday removed Uma Shankar from the post of Bankura (West Bengal) District Magistrate. Mukta Arya will be replacing him as the new DM.
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TMC delegation seeks WB EC's intervention over poll-violence in Asansol
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Apr 29 (ANI): A Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation led by party MP Shukhendu Shekhar Roy on Monday sought time from Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) West Bengal regarding BJP leader and Union Minister Babul Supriyo's alleged altercation with the polling of
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Man standing in voting queue killed in violence in West Bengal
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], Apr 23 (ANI): A man, who was standing in a queue to cast his vote, was killed after clashes erupted between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in Baligram area of Murshidabad on Tuesday.
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10 killed in Bangladesh poll violence
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec 30 (ANI): At least 10 people, including a law enforcement official, lost their lives in poll-related violence in Bangladesh on Sunday. The death toll is likely to go up as violence continues to rage in some pockets of the country despite heightened security.
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12 killed in West Bengal panchayat poll violence
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India] May 14 (ANI): Violence marred the West Bengal panchayat elections on Monday as at least 12 people were killed.
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BJP doesn't practice culture of violence, says Nalin Kohli
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Shillong, (Meghalaya) [India] Mar. 06 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said that it "does not ever practice culture of violence", after reports emerged where 11 party workers died in post-poll violence in Tripura.
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Odisha: Amit Shah meets grieving family of BJP leader killed in poll viole
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Khurda (Odisha) [India], July 4, (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday met mother of Chitrasen Jena, a BJP youth leader who was killed in the post Panchayat polls violence.
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