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BJP delegation to visit areas affected by violence during Panchayat poll d
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Days after the election-related violence in the three-tier West Bengal panchayat polls broke out, claiming several lives across all parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda on Monday nominated a four-member fact-finding committee to visit the affected areas in the stat
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West Bengal Panchayat polls: Amid allegations of rigging, counting of vote
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The counting of votes for the high-stake West Bengal panchayat election will begin on Tuesday at 8 am, a litmus test for Mamata Banerjee and BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
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"BJP will present case of faulty...": Suvendu Adhikari on West Bengal Panc
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
He further highlighted that the Calcutta High Court had previously directed the State Election Commission to ensure the presence of CCTV cameras and centralized monitoring of footage with police assistance in all polling booths. However, Adhikari alleged that these directives were not follow
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West Bengal Governor to meet Amit Shah today, panchayat poll violence lik
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose is scheduled to meet Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday evening, two days after panchayat polls in the state that saw violence
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After Bengal panchayat poll violence, voters happy with re-poll under heav
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"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.
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WB panchayat elections: Re-polling underway in 697 booths in 5 districts
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
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
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Adhir Chowdhury writes to BSF, seeks deployment of additional forces for r
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
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.
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West Bengal Panchayat Polls: BJP MP Khagen Murmu alleges ballot rigging, d
Updated : 2 years, 10 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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"No casualty where central forces were deployed": BSF after violence in WB
Updated : 2 years, 10 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, 10 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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"CM Mamata is responsible..." Bengal LoP Adhikari demands CBI, NIA probe o
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Training his guns at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the election-related violence during the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal, state Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday demanded a probe into the incidents by Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) and National I
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Bengal BJP chief writes letter to HM Shah, demands Centre's intervention a
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
As the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal were marred by poll-related violence, Bharatiya Janata Party state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, demanding the intervention of the Central government.
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