Bengal Poll Violence: 19 Dead, BJP Questions 'Silence' of Oppn on 'Murder of Democracy'
1 year, 5 months ago

Bengal Poll Violence: 19 Dead, BJP Questions 'Silence' of Oppn on 'Murder of Democracy'

News 18  

The poll violence in the Panchayat election in West Bengal on Saturday ended up claiming at least 19 lives. Speaking on the poll violence in the state, security personnel alleged that despite several reminders, West Bengal State Election Commission failed to provide locations and other details of sensitive polling booths before the polls. “We had written several letters to West Bengal State Election Commission regarding information on sensitive polling booths, but on June 7 West Bengal govt responded with only the numbers of sensitive polling booths and did not provide the locations or other details. West Bengal Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury questioned CM Mamata Banerjee’s “absence” in violence-hit areas and said the party will stage an agitation against the killings. #WATCH पश्चिम बंगाल: पंचायत चुनाव हिंसा में हुई मृत्यु पर कांग्रेस सांसद अधीर रंजन चौधरी ने कहा, “कल यहां एक 62 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की हत्या कर दी गई। हत्या का उद्देश्य यह था कि इन्हें मार कर 3-4 बूथ पर कब्ज़ा किया जा सके। CM ममता बनर्जी अभी कहीं नहीं दिखेंगी, राज्य चुनाव आयोग कहीं… pic.twitter.com/1qtQ4WtAmP— ANI_HindiNews July 9, 2023 West Bengal’s State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha has pledged to address complaints of vote tampering and consider the option of re-polling based on reports from observers and returning officers.

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Shah Warns of State-Sponsored Infiltration in Bengal, Demands BJP Govt for 2026 Elections
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Shah Warns of State-Sponsored Infiltration in Bengal, Demands BJP Govt for 2026 Elections

India TV News  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has accused the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of being involved in the state-sponsored infiltration and corruption. He called for a concerted effort to secure a two-thirds majority for the BJP in the 2026 West Bengal state elections. Shah also raised concerns for the safety of women in the state, referring to recent incidents …

'Just Like Bangladesh...': Bengal CM Mamata Accuses Oppn Of Trying To Grab Power Using Doctor Death Issue
4 months, 1 week ago

'Just Like Bangladesh...': Bengal CM Mamata Accuses Oppn Of Trying To Grab Power Using Doctor Death Issue

ABP News  

Amid the mounting attacks on the Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal over the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor at a Kolkata hospital, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit back at the opposition, accusing them of trying to grab power in the state by organising "Bangladesh-like protests". Mamata Banerjee also alleged that Bengal was being subjected to a …

Bangladesh: Hindu councillor shot dead; Kali temples vandalised during anti-govt protest, say reports
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bangladesh: Hindu councillor shot dead; Kali temples vandalised during anti-govt protest, say reports

Hindustan Times  

Bangladesh protests updates: Haradhan Roy Hara, a Hindu councillor of Rangpur City Corporation, was among the 100 people killed in the violent protests across Bangladesh on Sunday. Also Follow | Bangladesh protests LIVE updates Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters, demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, clashed with government supporters on one of the deadliest days since the demonstrations began. Protests are …

West Bengal: BJP Reaches Out to Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury After Congress Exit
4 months, 3 weeks ago

West Bengal: BJP Reaches Out to Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury After Congress Exit

Deccan Chronicle  

Kolkata: Close on the heels of Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's step down from the party chief’s post in West Bengal, a section of state BJP leaders have started reaching out to him to rope him into their party. While Rajya Sabha MP Shameek Bhattacharya asserted that the former Berhampore parliamentarian has no option other than siding with BJP, Bishnupur …

West Bengal: BJP'S Suvendu Leads Sit-In Against TMC Violence
5 months, 1 week ago

West Bengal: BJP'S Suvendu Leads Sit-In Against TMC Violence

Deccan Chronicle  

Kolkata: West Bengal leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari staged a four-hour sit-in demonstration with a group of around BJP 300 workers outside Raj Bhavan on Sunday against the post-poll violence allegedly by the Trinamul Congress in the state. Mr Adhikari however announced the plan of a new agitation by the BJP on July 21, the day when TMC holds …

Bypoll results highlights: West Bengal BJP chief accuses TMC of poll fraud
5 months, 1 week ago

Bypoll results highlights: West Bengal BJP chief accuses TMC of poll fraud

Hindustan Times  

Byelection results highlights: According to the results declared by the Election Commission on Saturday for bypolls held in 13 assembly seats across seven states, the INDIA bloc won 10 seats, while the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious in two constituencies and an Independent candidate clinched one seat. According to the Election Commission's Voter Turnout app, Tamil Nadu's Vikravandi assembly seat …

BJP forms four-member committee to look into political violence in West Bengal
6 months, 1 week ago

BJP forms four-member committee to look into political violence in West Bengal

India TV News  

West Bengal: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday formed a four-member committee to look into the alleged political violence in West Bengal. The four-member committee includes Biplab Kumar Deb, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Brij Lal and Kavita Patidar, all BJP MPs, with Deb as its convener. The BJP said the Lok Sabha elections were held across the country and no instance …

West Bengal Police blocks Suvendu Adhikari from entering Raj Bhavan amid post-poll violence claims
6 months, 1 week ago

West Bengal Police blocks Suvendu Adhikari from entering Raj Bhavan amid post-poll violence claims

India TV News  

Amid escalating tensions over post-poll violence, the West Bengal police on Thursday prohibited BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari from entering the Raj Bhawan to meet Governor C V Ananda Bose. Earlier, Adhikari in his allegations has stated that, "During the election process and after the results were declared, opposition political workers, especially BJP Bengal Karyakartas, are being targeted in West Bengal. …

Calcutta High Court raps West Bengal govt for failing to control post-poll violence
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Calcutta High Court raps West Bengal govt for failing to control post-poll violence

Op India  

On Thursday, the Calcutta High Court rapped the Mamata Banerjee-led- Trinamool Congress government over post-poll violence in West Bengal. What happened after the last Assembly election, the same thing is happening this time also.” Calcutta High Court Cautions State Over Instances Of Post-Poll Violence, Directs Complaints To Be Submitted To DGP Through E-Mail | ⁦@Srinjoy77⁩#LokSabhaElections2024https://t.co/8ltQz6Dxdo — Live Law June 7, …

Post-poll violence: Calcutta High Court asks victims and witnesses to submit complaints directly to DGP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Post-poll violence: Calcutta High Court asks victims and witnesses to submit complaints directly to DGP

The Hindu  

The Calcutta High Court on June 6 expressed concern over post-poll violence and issued a directive allowing affected people to submit complaints to the State’s Director General of Police via email. A division bench comprising Justices Kausik Chanda and Apurba Sinha Roy directed that any person who is a witness to or is a victim of any post-poll violence could …

Bengal BJP seeks governors’ intervention after post-poll violence reports
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Bengal BJP seeks governors’ intervention after post-poll violence reports

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: Incidents of post-poll violence poured in from several pockets of West Bengal, including Asansol, Howrah, Bhangar, Ghatal, Konnanar, Basirhat, Jhargram and Kolkata. A BJP office allegedly set on fire amid post-poll violence in West Bengal In most of the alleged incidents, it was the Bharatiya Janata Party workers who said that they were targeted and their houses and shops …

Opinion: How Didi succeeded in mobilising Bengali mistrust of Centre
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: How Didi succeeded in mobilising Bengali mistrust of Centre

India Today  

Inclusion, not polarisation, is West Bengal’s 7. As she crisscrossed the state, addressing a staggering 150 rallies, and walking miles to connect with her constituents, Mamata Banerjee’s message was simple: do not allow West Bengal to be overpowered by the Centre. It was a rejoinder to Modi’s campaign that if West Bengal’s voters joined him, he would oust Mamata Banerjee …

Several incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal, BJP and CPI(M) supporters targeted
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Several incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal, BJP and CPI(M) supporters targeted

The Hindu  

Several incidents of post-poll violence from various parts of West Bengal were reported on June 5, a day after the results of Lok Sabha election were declared and the Trinamool Congress bagged 29 seats of the total 42 seats reducing the BJP to 12 seats in the State. Incidents of post-poll violence were reported across several districts in the State …

West Bengal Lok Sabha polls phase 5: 73% voter turnout recorded till 5pm amid incidents of violence
7 months ago

West Bengal Lok Sabha polls phase 5: 73% voter turnout recorded till 5pm amid incidents of violence

Hindustan Times  

West Bengal Lok Sabha polls phase 5: A total of 73% voter turnout was recorded till 5pm in seven Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal that went to polls in the fifth phase on Monday, data shared by the Election Commission showed. People get their names checked in voters' lists inside a polling station during the fifth phase of India's …

Voter turnout over 36 per cent till 1 pm: Fifth phase LS polls
7 months ago

Voter turnout over 36 per cent till 1 pm: Fifth phase LS polls

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Over 36 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 1 pm on Monday in 49 constituencies in six states and two Union Territories in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections amid sporadic incidents of violence in West Bengal and a poll boycott in a village of Uttar Pradesh. While Maharashtra recorded the lowest voter turnout till 1 …

Scattered incidents of violence in fifth phase of LS polls in Bengal
7 months ago

Scattered incidents of violence in fifth phase of LS polls in Bengal

New Indian Express  

KOLKATA: Scattered incidents of violence marred the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls in seven parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal on Monday, as TMC and BJP workers clashed in various parts of Barrackpore, Bongaon, and Arambagh seats. In neighbouring Hooghly constituency, BJP sitting MP and party candidate Locket Chatterjee faced protests from TMC activists led by TMC MLA Ashima Patra. …

Three Bengal seats record 72% turnout in peaceful polling
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Three Bengal seats record 72% turnout in peaceful polling

The Hindu  

Voting for three Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the second phase of parliamentary election was peaceful with a voter turnout of over 72% till 5pm on Friday. Though there were no reports of violence, in Balurghat, BJP candidate and State party president Sukanta Majumdar got involved in a scuffle with Trinamool Congress supporters. Among the other candidates in …

Lok Sabha Elections LIVE: KC Venugopal Files Nomination From Kerala's Alappuzha Constituency
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha Elections LIVE: KC Venugopal Files Nomination From Kerala's Alappuzha Constituency

ABP News  

Lok Sabha Elections LIVE: Please follow this space and keep refreshing the page for all the latest developments pertaining to the Lok Sabha Elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he remains committed to taking action against corruption, emphasising that those engaged in corruption have two options left - jail or bail. "The biggest challenge in West Bengal elections …

Five cases of attacks on BJP workers in West Bengal ahead of 2024 elections
9 months ago

Five cases of attacks on BJP workers in West Bengal ahead of 2024 elections

Op India  

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, goons associated with the ruling Trinamool Congress party in West Bengal have yet again unleashed ‘khela‘ of violence against their political rival BJP. In a tweet on Sunday, he informed, “Opponents persecuted across the state by TMC.Met a BJP worker from Kushmondi Assembly, who was attacked by TMC goons, at Gangarampur Super Specialty …

Lok Sabha polls for 42 seats in West Bengal in seven phases
9 months, 1 week ago

Lok Sabha polls for 42 seats in West Bengal in seven phases

The Hindu  

Elections for West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats will be conducted in seven phases from beginning on April 19 and concluding on June 1, according to the election schedule announced by the Election Commission of India on March 16. After the announcement the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls in the State, Opposition parties in the State started demanding the deployment of …

Election Commission to deploy additional forces in Bengal ahead of Lok Sabha polls
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Election Commission to deploy additional forces in Bengal ahead of Lok Sabha polls

India Today  

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission has sought the deployment of 150 companies of the Central Armed Police Force in West Bengal. The 100 companies set to move to West Bengal would include 50 from the Border Security Force, 20 from the Central Reserve Police Force, 10 from the Central Industrial Security Force, 10 from the Indo-Tibetan …

‘No democracy in West Bengal’: BJP targets Mamata Banerjee over Sandeshkhali row
10 months ago

‘No democracy in West Bengal’: BJP targets Mamata Banerjee over Sandeshkhali row

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party Sudhanshu Trivedi on Friday slammed the West Bengal government over the ongoing Sandeshkhali unrest, saying “there is no democracy in West Bengal”. BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi Trivedi in a press conference targeted the chief minister, saying that the state under Mamata Banerjee’s rule has become inhuman and insensitive. Sandeshkhali, …

'Bengal deteriorating under Mamata,' says Adhir Ranjan after stopped from visiting violence-hit Sandeshkhali
10 months, 1 week ago

'Bengal deteriorating under Mamata,' says Adhir Ranjan after stopped from visiting violence-hit Sandeshkhali

India TV News  

West Bengal Congress chief and MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has hit out at I.N.D.I.A bloc member and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led government saying that the state's condition is deteriorating and there is no democracy left here. Chowdhury's statement came as he along with other leaders wanted to visit violence-hit Sandeshkhali to meet the victims but were stopped by the police. …

Rahul Gandhi on Chandigarh mayor polls row: ‘Beyond imagination what BJP will do to…’
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Rahul Gandhi on Chandigarh mayor polls row: ‘Beyond imagination what BJP will do to…’

Hindustan Times  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Jananta Party over the contentious Chandigarh mayoral election results as he drew a parallel between Tuesday's events and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse on this day 76 years back. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding the Chandigarh mayoral polls. Rahul …

Didi Slams BJP After Delhi Police Lifts TMC Stir
1 year, 2 months ago

Didi Slams BJP After Delhi Police Lifts TMC Stir

Deccan Chronicle  

Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has attacked the BJP after her MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee and other Trinamul Congress leaders were forcibly removed by the Delhi police personnel from Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi during their sit-in demonstration on Tuesday night. An angry TMC supremo tweeted, "Today is a dark, sinister day for democracy, a day when @BJP4India …

TMC alleges BJP goons indulged in Bengal rural poll violence and not its workers
1 year, 4 months ago

TMC alleges BJP goons indulged in Bengal rural poll violence and not its workers

India TV News  

The Trinamool Congress on Saturday alleged that BJP goons had indulged in violence during the panchayat elections in West Bengal and not the ruling party's cadre as claimed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an address earlier in the day. Claiming that the PM's accusations against the TMC government were untrue, West Bengal minister Sashi Panja also accused the BJP …

Necessary for Country to Know Democracy Has Ended in Bengal: BJP Fact-finding Team on Poll Violence in State
1 year, 4 months ago

Necessary for Country to Know Democracy Has Ended in Bengal: BJP Fact-finding Team on Poll Violence in State

News 18  

A fact-finding BJP committee, which looked into incidents of violence during the recent West Bengal panchayat polls, submitted its report to party president J P Nadda, alleging that a “sickening symbol of shameful democracy” was witnessed during the elections. It is necessary for the country to know that democracy has ended in Bengal, BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi …

Bengal top cop denies reports of woman stripped outside polling booth during panchayat elections
1 year, 5 months ago

Bengal top cop denies reports of woman stripped outside polling booth during panchayat elections

Hindustan Times  

The West Bengal Police on Friday rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party's allegation of its gram sabha poll candidate being sexually assaulted by Trinamool Congress workers in Howrah's Panchla during the recently concluded panchayat election. West Bengal DGP M. Malaviya While addressing a press conference on Friday, the Bengal top cop said, “On 13 July, SP Howrah Rural received a complaint …

'Our West Bengal nominee also faced Manipur like horror situation', says BJP MP Locket Chatterjee
1 year, 5 months ago

'Our West Bengal nominee also faced Manipur like horror situation', says BJP MP Locket Chatterjee

India TV News  

The Bharatiya Janata Party today claimed that a Manipur-like gruesome incident has also happened with one of its nominee-candidates in the recently concluded Panchayat elections in West Bengal which the ruling party dubbed as ‘Khoon Ka Chunaav’. Bharatiya Janata Party MP from West Bengal’s Hooghly Locket Chatterjee broke down on Friday while recounting an alleged incident of sexual assault of …

Data | Forty deaths in the run-up to Panchayat polls: West Bengal most affected by political violence
1 year, 5 months ago

Data | Forty deaths in the run-up to Panchayat polls: West Bengal most affected by political violence

The Hindu  

In the month leading up to the panchayat elections in West Bengal, 40 people were killed in poll-related violence. This is not an exception; an analysis of past data shows that political violence and related deaths peaked during and around all the recent polls in West Bengal. Political violence peaked in West Bengal during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and …

Idea Behind INDIA, Panchayat Polls Violence & 2024 Battle: This Martyrs' Day, Mamata Eyes National Stage
1 year, 5 months ago

Idea Behind INDIA, Panchayat Polls Violence & 2024 Battle: This Martyrs' Day, Mamata Eyes National Stage

News 18  

The Trinamool Congress has plans to mark this year’s Martyrs’ Day by kicking off the countdown for the 2024 general elections. While the stage is ready in Kolkata’s Dharamtala for TMC’s rally, BJP has planned a counter-protest the same day to attack the state government over panchayat poll violence. This time, we should all go and ‘gherao’ the BDO office …

West Bengal: BJP to corner TMC with mega rally on 19 July with people displaced by poll violence
1 year, 5 months ago

West Bengal: BJP to corner TMC with mega rally on 19 July with people displaced by poll violence

Firstpost  

BJP will continue exerting pressure on the West Bengal government, asserting that the law and order situation is deteriorating in the state The BJP has decided to organise a mega rally in Kolkata on 19 July with people who were forced to flee their house due to the violence during the Panchayat elections and after the results. On Sunday, state …

Break the vicious cycle of violence in every poll
1 year, 5 months ago

Break the vicious cycle of violence in every poll

Hindustan Times  

This happened in the 1970s. Since then, I’ve been wrestling with one question: Why was so much money spent and blood spilt for an election to a post like a block pramukh? The violence during West Bengal’s panchayat elections has reignited this old debate. The woman’s brother-in-law proposed a three-pronged strategy: One, how they will prevent Opposition supporters from voting …

Newslaundry mocks people killed in West Bengal Panchayat poll violence
1 year, 5 months ago

Newslaundry mocks people killed in West Bengal Panchayat poll violence

Op India  

On 13th July, during the Hafta program, where Newslaundry discusses the most talked about topics of the world, the panellists openly mocked the people who were recently killed during West Bengal Panchayat polls. I mean, that’s a really good point.” A total of 52 people have lost their lives in the violence during the Panchayat elections in West Bengal, apart …

'Journalist' Rajdeep Sardesai downplays panchayat violence in West Bengal
1 year, 5 months ago

'Journalist' Rajdeep Sardesai downplays panchayat violence in West Bengal

Op India  

Days after 50 people were killed in political violence during the West Bengal panchayat election, India Today ‘journalist Rajdeep Sardesai attempted to contextualise the violence and give Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a clean chit. On being asked by journalist Saurabh Dwivedi of Lallantop about the incumbent TMC government’s failure to contain the violence, Sardesai dodged the question altogether and narrated …

West Bengal local polls | Bombs and ballot boxes
1 year, 5 months ago

West Bengal local polls | Bombs and ballot boxes

The Hindu  

Liaqat Sheikh followed a simple morning routine. From June 8, when the notification for the panchayat polls was issued, to the night of July 8, when polling ended, 40 people were killed in the State in poll-related violence. Mayhem in Murshidabad Blood stains and the residue of crude bombs remained on the road when State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury …

Panchayat Poll Violence: Bengal BJP Seeks Governor's Intervention
1 year, 5 months ago

Panchayat Poll Violence: Bengal BJP Seeks Governor's Intervention

News 18  

The legal department of West Bengal BJP on Friday sought Governor C V Ananda Bose’s intervention over the violence during the West Bengal panchayat election process, claiming that it has exposed the “suffocation of democratic process” and lack of law and order in the state. Seeking the governor’s intervention “to restore democracy in West Bengal,” BJP legal department comprising advocates, …

Bengal panchayat election: Second round of repolling to take place in 20 booths
1 year, 5 months ago

Bengal panchayat election: Second round of repolling to take place in 20 booths

India Today  

The West Bengal State Election Commission on Friday announced that another round of re-polling will take place in 20 booths across Hooghly, Howrah, and North 24 Parganas. Earlier on July 10, re-polling took place in 696 booths across 19 districts on the State Election Commissioner's order. The SEC in its notice said the second round of re-polling will be held …

DC Edit | Despite poll violence, Didi reigns supreme in Bengal
1 year, 5 months ago

DC Edit | Despite poll violence, Didi reigns supreme in Bengal

Deccan Chronicle  

The last vote cast in the elections to local self-government bodies in West Bengal held last week has not been counted yet. The many-headed Opposition has actually been relegated by the party ruling West Bengal for 12 years now to distant second, third and fourth places. Ms Banerjee with her spartan manner and squeaky clean record has successfully resisted the …

Bengal post-poll clashes continue, election in 20 booths countermanded
1 year, 5 months ago

Bengal post-poll clashes continue, election in 20 booths countermanded

Hindustan Times  

KOLKATA: The West Bengal State Election Commission has countermanded panchayat polls at 20 booths in three districts even as post-poll clashes erupted in several areas across the state on Thursday. Left Front, Congress Party, ISF with other allied parties take part in a central protest rally against violence during Bengal panchayat election “Election has been countermanded in some booths of …

West Bengal rural poll violence: 6 more killed, death toll reaches 48
1 year, 5 months ago

West Bengal rural poll violence: 6 more killed, death toll reaches 48

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: At least six deaths were reported from across West Bengal on Wednesday even as counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat elections continued, taking the toll to 48 in alleged poll-related violence since June 8 when the rural polls were announced, police officers familiar with the matter said. Read here: Panchayat poll results subject to court’s final orders: Calcutta …

Bengal Panchayat Polls: TMC Wins, But At What Cost? Many Cautionary Signs For Mamata Banerjee
1 year, 5 months ago

Bengal Panchayat Polls: TMC Wins, But At What Cost? Many Cautionary Signs For Mamata Banerjee

ABP News  

Following a tumultuous month plagued by widespread violence, the West Bengal panchayat election has reached its conclusion with a resounding triumph for Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress party. In the realm of electoral politics, where numbers hold paramount importance, Mamata Banerjee's resounding victory as the undisputed leader of West Bengal, after securing an impressive vote share of over 52%, …

Gave police free hand to probe: Mamata Banerjee on Bengal panchayat poll violence
1 year, 5 months ago

Gave police free hand to probe: Mamata Banerjee on Bengal panchayat poll violence

India Today  

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she has given a free hand to the state police to probe who was behind the violence that marred the recently concluded state panchayat elections. Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Mamata Banerjee said 19 people, mostly from her party the Trinamool Congress, have died in poll-related violence since elections were announced. "I …

'Where was BJP's fact-finding team when Manipur was burning?' Mamata Banerjee attacks
1 year, 5 months ago

'Where was BJP's fact-finding team when Manipur was burning?' Mamata Banerjee attacks

India TV News  

West Bengal: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a scathing on the Bharatiya Janata Party as a BJP's fact-finding team has arrived here to probe the panchayat poll violence. Banerjee announced compensation amount Mamata Banerjee announced compensation amounts for those who lost their lives in the recent violence that erupted during the West Bengal Panchayat Polls. We will not …

Mamata shamed democracy in Bengal: BJP hits out at Trinamool over poll violence
1 year, 5 months ago

Mamata shamed democracy in Bengal: BJP hits out at Trinamool over poll violence

India Today  

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday teared into West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the recent violence in the state during panchayat polls. While speaking to reporters, the BJP leader criticised the Trinamool Congress supremo for letting loose a reign of terror during the rural polls and even questioned why the …

WB Gram Panchayat Poll Results 2023: TMC Celebrates After Strong Lead; BJP Claims At Least 45 Killed in Violence
1 year, 5 months ago

WB Gram Panchayat Poll Results 2023: TMC Celebrates After Strong Lead; BJP Claims At Least 45 Killed in Violence

News 18  

TMC Resides in Hearts of People: Mamata on Panchayat Poll Win Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday thanked the people of West Bengal for the TMC’s huge win in the panchayat elections. West Bengal Panchayat Poll: BJP Wins 705 Gram Panchayats, Leading in 4,051 Official data till 4:45 pm shows that BJP won 705 Gram Panchayats seats and is leading …

BJP Claims at Least 45 Killed in Bengal Panchayat Polls, Calls Mamata Banerjee 'Ruthless'
1 year, 5 months ago

BJP Claims at Least 45 Killed in Bengal Panchayat Polls, Calls Mamata Banerjee 'Ruthless'

News 18  

The BJP on Tuesday slammed the Trinamool Congress government over the “state- Violence rocked the July 8 rural polls, leaving 15 dead while ballot boxes were vandalised, ballot papers burnt and bombs thrown at rivals in several places. As counting began on Tuesday and initial trends started pouring in, the BJP’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed the ruling TMC’s “dadagiri …

All Quiet on the 'West Bengal' Front: The Congress's Dilemma over Panchayat Poll Violence
1 year, 5 months ago

All Quiet on the 'West Bengal' Front: The Congress's Dilemma over Panchayat Poll Violence

News 18  

Silence can be powerful. But in case of the West Bengal panchayat poll violence, it is reflecting the dilemma within the Congress. While the fight over the poll violence is largely between the Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress, too, claimed their party workers have been assaulted in state Congress president and leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan …

'Violence in Bengal is not accidental; it is state-sponsored murder of democracy': BJP unleashes attack on TMC
1 year, 5 months ago

'Violence in Bengal is not accidental; it is state-sponsored murder of democracy': BJP unleashes attack on TMC

Firstpost  

BJP leader Sambit Patra claimed that the ruling Trinamool Congress’ government in West Bengal’s ‘dadagiri politics’ was on even on the day of ballot counting Violence in West Bengal is “not accidental,” but is “a state- Patra’s statement came on the day when the counting of votes for the Bengal Panchayat polls were underway. “In West Bengal, elections and violence …

Violence is Mainstay of Bengal Politics, And BJP will Make This a Crucial Issue for 2024 Polls - News18
1 year, 5 months ago

Violence is Mainstay of Bengal Politics, And BJP will Make This a Crucial Issue for 2024 Polls - News18

News 18  

Twenty people were reportedly killed in violent clashes related to Panchayat elections in West Bengal until Monday. For the Opposition block, especially for the BJP, this election turns out to be a repetition of the 2018 Panchayat polls in terms of political violence. BJP, which has been designing its campaign on the issues of corruption, scams and the dynasty politics, …

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