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WB panchayat polls: Polling agent killed in attack, claims BJP candidate
Updated : 2 years, 8 months 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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'West Bengal govt used mid-day meal funds for polls': Centre seeks report
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The ministry in its letter said that funds earmarked for mid-day meal scheme (PM POSHAN) are being used for a different purpose.
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WB panchayat polls: "3 party workers killed", alleges Trinamool Congress
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Polling for panchayats in West Bengal began this morning under stringent security cover.
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WB panchayat polls: Polling booth vandalised, ballot papers set on fire in
Updated : 2 years, 8 months 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 : 2 years, 8 months 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 : 2 years, 8 months 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 : 2 years, 8 months 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 : 2 years, 8 months 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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Permanent solution to problems is "black ink on index finger," WB Guv urge
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday urged people to exercise their franchise on voting day saying that the "permanent solution" to everything lies in the "black ink on the index finger."
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WB Panchayat polls: BJP candidate attacked allegedly by TMC in Coochbehar
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Ahead of the Panchayat election in West Bengal, the house of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate was attacked allegedly by Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday.
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WB Panchayat Election: Amid violence TMC, BJP,gear up for litmus test
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The polls are likely to see a fierce tussle for control of local administrations between the ruling Trinamool Congress, Indian Secular Front and the Bharatiya Janata Party and will be a litmus test for both parties ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections.
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BJP, Cong, CPI(M) resorting to violence in 6-7 booths: TMC leader Kunal Gh
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Pointing fingers at the Opposition over the violence in West Bengal in the run-up to the July 8 panchayat elections, ruling Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Thursday said of the 73,000 booths put together for the polls, there are only about 6-7 where the BJP, Congress and the CPI(M)
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