Stray violence mars Ph 3 polling in WB
Overall turnout 77.68 per cent till 5 p.m; Candidates attacked; TMC accuses Central Forces, BJP of high-handedness, voter intimidation
Overall turnout 77.68 per cent till 5 p.m; Candidates attacked; TMC accuses Central Forces, BJP of high-handedness, voter intimidation
PM Modi targeted TMC leader over the accusations on the Election Commission. He said that had the BJP said that Hindus had to unite and vote for BJP they would have got notices.
Nadda was drumming up support for Union minister Babul Supriyo, BJP’s Tollygunge candidate and actor who made her poll debut BJP’s Payal Sarkar, who is slogging for Behala (east).
She said the Jessop and the Dunlop factories, the two giant industries, are not functioning rendering thousands of workers jobless who are passing days in great distress with their families.
South 24 Parganas comprising 16 seats have been the fortress of TMC; Swapan and Kanti in fray and TMC has brought in several new faces
Miss Banerjee, while addressing the rally at both these assembly seats assured the huge gatherings that steps have already been taken to control the recurring flood situation while some more projects are on the verge of completion that will seek to completely remedy the flood situation in Khanakul, Pursurah, parts of Midnapore, and Burdwan which otherwise causes massive loss of life, property, and livestock.
The third phase of elections will be held for 31 seats in parts of rural Howrah, the Sunderban region, the Diamond Harbour and Baruipur belts in the South 24 Parganas, and parts of the Hooghly district
The BJP will win over 200 seats, Modi said and claimed that TMC and its party supremo will have to account for the deaths of brothers, sisters and sons of Bengal.
With deployment of about 2,200 CAPF personnel, Nandigram people who put up a fierce resistance in 2007 refusing to allow law enforcement personnel inside their territory, today felt safe as they began gathering outside the 355 polling booths when the clock struck 6:30 a.m.
Overall voter turnout at 80.43 p.c till 5 p.m.; sporadic incidents of violence as TMC accuses BJP, Central forces of voter intimidation
