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Bengal Panchayat Elections: Central and state security forces deployed on
Updated : 3 years 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 : 3 years 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 : 3 years 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 : 3 years 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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"This is not an election, but death": West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari on
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"This is not an election, this is death. There is a fire of violence across the state. Central forces have not been deployed. CCTVs are not operating. This is not voting but loot...This is the collusion of TMC goons and Police and that is why so murders are happening," Adhikari said while ta
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"TMC hooliganism... openly looting ballots": BJP's Sukanta Majumdar
Updated : 3 years ago IST
BJP state chief Sukanta Majumdar alleged "TMC hoologanism crossed all limits" and that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with the Chief Electoral Officer of the state were "responsible" for murders.
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Panchayat polls: "TMC workers have been murdered, central forces failed to
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Earlier, Trinamool Congress alleged that three of its party workers have been murdered in multiple incidents of violence in West Bengal after polling for the single-phase panchayat elections began in the state on Saturday morning.
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WB panchayat polls: Polling booth vandalised, ballot papers set on fire in
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A polling booth at Baravita Primary School in Sitai, Cooch Behar has been allegedly vandalised and ballot papers were set on fire after voting began for the single-phase panchayat polls in West Bengal.
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WB: Voting begins for single phase Panchayat polls in state
Updated : 3 years ago IST
After hectic campaigning and nominations scarred by violence polling for the Panchayat Polls in West Bengal began on Saturday morning under stringent security measures.
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WB panchayat polls: Clash breaks out between TMC and Congress workers in M
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Ahead of the West Bengal panchayat elections, a clash broke out between Trinamool Congress and Congress workers on Friday night in the Shamsherganj area of Murshidabad district.
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WB panchayat polls: Police conduct searches after tip of bombs stockpiled
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A search operation was underway ahead of the West Bengal panchayat polls, on Friday, after police received information that crude bombs and weapons have been stockpiled in the district, an official statement said on Friday.
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WB: BJP candidate's house allegedly attacked by TMC workers in Cooch Behar
Updated : 3 years ago IST
West Bengal has witnessed several instances of violence during the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls and thereafter. One incident involved the alleged hurling of crude bombs at a Block Development Office (BDO) in Ahmadpur, Birbhum district.
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