West Bengal Panchayat Election HIGHLIGHTS: Violence rocked Bengal's rural polls as voting ended on Saturday leaving 12 people dead, ballot boxes vandalized and bombs thrown at rivals in a number of villages.
The panchayat elections in West Bengal, which witnessed pre-poll violence leading to deaths, will be held today amid tight security. The Governor has appealed to the people to come out in large numbers and cast their votes.
CPI(M) demanded that the history sheeters be taken into custody to percent the from creating any chaos during voting in the West Bengal panchayat polls on July 8.
Mamata Banerjee knee surgery: The TMC supremo is scheduled to visit the state-run SSKM Hospital in the city on Thursday, July 6.
Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP is attempting to divide Bengal using 'divisive forces', after 'destroying' Kashmir and Manipur.
TMC has alleged that West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has never uttered a single word against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Molla was a youth Trinamool activist from Khirishkhali village in Ramachandrakhali panchayat, as per information provided by sources in the victim's family and police.
Bose monitored the situation throughout the night from Cooch Behar circuit house, where he is staying, and issued instructions to State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha, SP and District Magistrate, officials said.
BJP has expressed apprehensions that the TMC would attempt to rig panchayat polls on the voting day in West Bengal on July 8.
Bengal Governor CV Anand Bose said the death knell of democracy should not ring in hands of its custodian.
West Bengal panchayat polls 2023: Hitting out at the BJP, Mamata said, "Before the Lok Sabha polls BJP assured you that it will reopen all closed tea gardens, but they did not. We will give you patta, land rights in the tea garden areas."
West Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee's helicopter made an emergency landing at Sevoke Airbase. She was going to Bagdogra after addressing a public gathering at Jalpaiguri.
State Election Commissioner (SEC) Rajiva Sinha on Sunday met Governor CV Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan amid violent incidents in various parts of West Bengal ahead of the panchayat elections.
Mamata Banerjee will kickstart the panchayat poll campaign for the TMC candidates from Monday. The BJP and TMC indulged in a war of words following the development.
West Bengal: Two goods trains collided at Onda railway station in Bankura. Rail operation on Kharagpur–Bankura–Adra line has been halted.
A Congress panchayat poll candidate was among the five people arrested for allegedly making crude bombs at a house, the police said on Saturday.
Dhananjay Chaubey, the president of TMC's Adra town, was shot dead on Thursday at the party office in the Pandey Market area.
Bhattacharya said their surgery for physical transformation to a transgender man will take place soon. "I am thankful to all those who have supported me on social media. I need wishes from everyone," they said.
Hearing a contempt petition, the high court had on Wednesday directed the SEC to requisition more than 82,000 central forces personnel within 24 hours.
The Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the progress of the East-West Metro project work and the newly built Metro tunnel under river Hooghly in West Bengal.
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