INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The July 8 panchayat election was marked by violence on a large scale with about 20 people being killed on the day alone and
In a unique development, while the main opposition BJP, CPM and Congress blamed the TMC for the poll-related violence and rigging, the
panchayat samiti seats and 928 zilla parishad seats in 22 districts of the state.Repolling was ordered on 697 of the 61,636 booths due to
poll-related irregularities
It was held on MondayOn June 23, Mamata Banerjee was one of the prominent leaders in the meeting of opposition leaders at Patna along with
the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party president Rahul Gandhi and CPM leader Sitaram Yechury
The leaders are supposed to meet again on July 17 and 18 to chalk out a strategy for unitedly contesting against the ruling BJP.However, the
opposition unity was thrown to the winds in the Bengal panchayat election
Rather, the Congress and CPM were on the same page as the BJP in accusing the ruling TMC of presiding over violence during the election.On
213 of the 292 seats while the BJP was victorious on 77 seats
two parties had ruled the state for several decades before TMC won the election in 2011.BJPWest Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu
Adhikari, the BJP leader who had defeated Mamata in the 2021 assembly election from Nandigram, wrote a letter to the State Election
failure of the commission to conduct a free and fair poll..
Just on polling day, 17 precious lives were lost, widespread rigging (took place) in many instances with active participation of polling
officers, non-deployment of any force, state and central
Despite court orders, civic volunteers were used
Accordingly, we demand repoll be announced in all booths where CCTV/ video footage show false voting, polling officers' involvement in
rigging and where BJP candidate or agent were forcibly removed before end of polls
Furthermore, to ensure free and fair counting, the promulgation of Sec 144 in the entire area of police stations within which counting
centres have been established
breadth of West Bengal, in the garb of so-called panchayat election
There was widespread and unabated violence resulting in more than 20 deaths, while leaving hundreds injured
Thousands of polling booths were captured by TMC goons in order to rig the voting process, even the polling booths were bombed, there was
said initially the Bengal BJP provided the details of more than 6,000 booths where either the CCTV cameras were not installed or
malfunctioning or there would be clear evidence of false polling captured by the CCTV cameras
farce, perpetuated by the WB SEC, on instructions of Mamata Banerjee, and is nothing more than an attempt to whitewash the gross
and handed over a specific list of approx 6,000 booths (a small subset of the overall number).Malviya directly blamed TMC supremo Mamata for
the incidents in the state
free will of the people of Bengal
Her high-handedness will come to haunt her
a missing SEC, who has wilfully colluded with the ruling TMC to subvert the election, contempt of courts, mishandled deployment of CAPF
(Central Armed Police Force) by the state administration, despite force being on ground, booth capturing, which started as early as last
evening, bombs, gun fires, stone pelting, murders, diligent presiding officers threaten and intimidated by TMC goons, proxy voting, chappa,
There can be no greater example of dereliction of duty and subversion of democracy
the violence in West Bengal
Fair and clean elections should be held without any hindrance
If there are no fair elections, democracy will cease to exist." However, the West Bengal unit of the Congress led by its state president
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is also the leader of the party in Lok Sabha, directly blamed TMC and Mamata for the killing of its workers and
@AITCofficial goons supported by the state administration and WB Police
the forehead of Mamta Banerjee-led government
This uncontrollable violence raises questions only on CM
Under the patronage of her power, such an army of goons has been prepared, which is often being heavy on police and administration causing
pradesh Congress president and Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met the bereaved family members of 62-year-old Congress
worker Haji Liaquat Ali, who was brutally killed by Trinamool killers in a bomb attack in Madhupur panchayat Gangadhari village of Noda
Chowdhury (Dalu Babur) led a road blockade program at Rathbari intersection to protest the way the ruling party killed democracy and looted
votes in the Tristar panchayat elections yesterday
added that the Left Front leadership was led by leaders such as Biman Bose, CPM state secretary and former MP Mohammad Salim and Suryakant
15 and 16 of Kamche Primary School of Goghat Village Panchayat of Goghat Block No
front of the SEC office.TMCOn its part, TMC directly blamed the state units of the BJP, Congress and CPM for perpetrating the violence
'harmads' of BJP Bengal, CPM Bengal and Congress Bengal? Our party workers and candidates
Whose reputation was dragged through the mud as central forces stood like mute spectators while violence escalated? Ours
Who was disproportionately affected by CRPF personnel shameless canvassing for the BJP? Us
It accused them of aiming to create chaos and unrest for their own benefit
violence-related incidents
district, Purba Medinipur
Following his orders, two days later, they start bombarding the polling site
After all this, he has the audacity to blame us for the 'law and order' crisis that he himself is bent on creating
