During repolling for West Bengal panchayats in over 600 booths on Monday, a clip went viral where a woman was purportedly seen helping another cast her vote as she stood with her through the entire process in the vouting cubicle.
"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.
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
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.
This is the most sacred day for democracy...The election must be through ballots and not bullets," the Governor said while talking to the reporters in the State. Around 5.67 crore voters are likely to exercise their franchise to choose representatives for nearly 928 seats across 22 zilla
Reacting to the Gujarat High Court verdict on the defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister V Muraleedharan said that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress should apologize to the people in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency as they are bereft of an MP after his disqualifi
He further said that even if Ajit Pawar has joined hands with the Eknath Shinde government after taking oath as the second Deputy CM of the state, his respect for his uncle will not be affected.
Taking to Twitter, Obama said, "Today, the Supreme Court rejected the fringe independent state legislature theory that threatened to upend our democracy and dismantle our system of checks and balances."
"The public will make them sit at home in 2024 and vote to bring the Modi government to power again. They know their faces well," Union Minister Anurag Thakur said.
The administration and Bolpur police also joined hands with the central forces to ensure that the election process could be done peacefully in the Panchayat elections.
Continuing with the Campaign, EPICs were distributed among the Kashmiri migrant voters today at the migrant Camp Jagti where a large number of migrant voters availed this facility and collected their EPICs, a press statement read.
"People of Bengal are with Mamata Banerjee. It is a court verdict, everybody has to accept it but do not forget that the votes will be given by the voters," he said.