Voting for India's parliamentary election, the largest democratic exercise in the world, began at 7 am with Election Commission urging people to exercise their franchise in maximum number
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the migrant voters who had come to the state not to leave without voting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, alleging that if they don't exercise their right, the Bharatiya Janata Party will take away their citizenship.
Tripura is leading the voter turnout charts after it recorded a 68.35 voting percentage in the state till 3 pm as per the data released by the Election Commission of India.
Amidst the first phase of voting in Lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate from West Bengal's Cooch Behar, Piya Roy Chowdhury, cast her vote and claimed that the BJP and TMC party are threatening people on the polling booths.
Tripura is leading the voter turnout charts after a 34.54 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 am as per the data released by the Election Commission of India.
According to the data released by the Election Commission of India, West Bengal saw a 15.09 per cent voter turnout, while Madhya Pradesh recorded a 15 per cent till 9 am.
As of 9:30 am voter turnout percentages varied across states participating in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections with states like West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh leading the voter turnout charts.
Ahead of the first phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections, Jagdish Chandra Barma Basunia, TMC candidate from Cooch Behar constituency appealed to the voters to cast their vote in the name of work and not religion. He also stepped up his attack on BJP and said that the people of Cooch
"Peace and harmony are something that the people of Bengal want and the people of Bengal deserve. It is after the authorities to ensure that there is law and order in the state, especially during the elections. Any perpetrators of violence should be booked and stern action should be taken, t
One of the star candidates of the BJP, Nisith Pramanik, who holds the portfolio of the Union Minister of State for Home, is the most prominent candidate from West Bengal in the first phase.
"This is to bring to your attention that we have received credible information that Shri Nishith Pramanik is using his office, as the Minister of State (Ministry of Home Affairs), to control the CRPF personnel deployed in Coochbehar Parliamentary Constituency and using them for his illegal b
The Tin Bigha Corridor is a narrow strip of land in West Bengal's Coochbehar that was given as a lease to Bangladesh so that the neighbouring nation could access the Dahagram-Angarpota Bangladeshi enclaves within Indian territory.