Tag: panchayat election

BJP resorting to politics of murder: Mamata

Mamata says state government will never allow NRC exercise in Bengal, charges that the BJP is now working with erstwhile CPM 'harmads'

August 29, 2018

Victory of the people: Mamata

Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on panchayat poll, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday slammed the BJP, the Congress and the CPIM for resorting to “false propaganda” and “conspiracy” as well as “defaming” and “insulting” the state through “planned and planted move”. “This is a victory of democracy and the people of Bengal. …

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August 25, 2018

BJP slams Mamata double standards

BJP activists are being driven out of their homes after they successfully fought against TMC in panchayat poll.

May 23, 2018

Poll violence: Mamata offers compensation to victims’ kin

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced compensation for the families of 14 people and the presiding officer who died during panchayat election in the state. The family of Rajkumar Roy, the deceased presiding officer of an election booth in Itahar, would be handed over Rs 5 lakh, while the families of the 14 people …

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May 19, 2018

Macabre dance

The anticipated ha-ha on Thursday over the panchayat election results shall not dim the awesome reality ~ the dance of democracy in rural Bengal assumed macabre dimensions on Monday. No fewer than 19 people were said to have perished as a vast swathe of the state went to the polls to elect the quangos. This …

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May 17, 2018

Trinamool tried its best to maintain peace: Partha

Refuting allegations of violence against the Trinamool Congress ahead of the rural polls in the state, party’s secretary general Partha Chatterjee on Friday said that the party has tried its best to maintain peace. “We are the ruling party, why should we indulge in violence?” he retorted. The rural polls will be held on 14 …

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May 12, 2018

Left parties slam West Bengal CM

Seventeen Left parties on Friday accused chief minister Mamata Banerjee of plunging the state into chaos by resorting to unprecedented malpractices in the conduction of the panchayat election. Several hundred Left supporters and “victims” of Trinamul- led attacks took part in a procession carrying torches from the base of Lenin’s statue at Esplanade to Sealdah …

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May 5, 2018

Mukul cries foul after permission for meeting ‘denied’

Bharatiya Janata Party leader and party observer for the panchayat election, Mukul Roy on Thursday came down heavily on the election commission and the district police administration for not permitting BJP members to hold public meetings in South Dinajpur. It was however witnessed that BJP leaders addressed all the meetings in the district on Thursday …

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May 4, 2018

HC asks Bengal govt, SEC to file reports on 4 May

A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal government and State Election Commission (SEC) to file separate reports on 4 May stating the measures taken to ensure protection of state government personnel deployed on panchayat election duty. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya and Justice Arijit Banerjee …

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April 28, 2018

Malda to have female managed polling booths

The Malda district administration has planned to have a voting booth exclusively managed by females at every single developmental block in Malda for the three-tier panchayat election starting 1 May. The district administration has already planned their action and has selected females to execute the process though all the female government employees will not be …

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April 14, 2018

Humayun Kabir issues murder threat during Cong peace rally

Former minister of state of Trinamul Congress-led government Humayun Kabir on Friday issued an open threat of murder against the government officials in charge of conducting the panchayat election in Murshidabad district. While addressing a peace rally of the Congress party here on Friday, Mr Kabir gave a murder threat to officials who are now …

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April 14, 2018

Six-hour bandh a success, says Left

The Left Front on Friday said the six hours bandh called by them was successful in exposing the complete surrendering of the State Election Commission (SEC) to the state government and throttling of democracy by the ruling party which did not allow Opposition candidates to file nominations in the upcoming panchayat election. In a statement, …

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April 14, 2018

WBCHSE urges SEC to relieve examiners from poll duty

The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has asked the state election commission to relieve the head examiners and examiners from election duty. This comes in the backdrop of several government school teachers who have been deputed in Panchayat election duty demanded they be relieved as it will hamper their ongoing assignment of …

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April 8, 2018

HC asks SPs to help candidates file papers

In an interim order of acting Chief Justice’s Division Bench of Calcutta High Court on Friday, superintendents of police (SP) of different districts of the state were directed to assist any candiate of panchayat election who complained of being obstructed while filing his/her nomination papers. The direction came following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed …

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April 7, 2018

Panchayat election process to start in February 2018: Mehbooba

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that her government had decided to start the process of holding Panchayat elections in the state from February next year. “Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti met Governor N.N. Vohra at the Raj Bhavan here today (Monday). During their half hour long meeting, the Chief Minister informed …

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December 26, 2017

Saffronite gains

Though not as triumphant as it has been in the Maharashtra civic elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged eventually as a factor to reckon with in Odisha, if the result of the panchayat election is any indication. True the election has little or no relevance in the national perspective; but as an indicator of …

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February 28, 2017