WEST BENGAL: Between the binary of a
ladaku neta (the war-like Mamata Banerjee) and the PM’s fort-destroyer act, complete with taunts and slogans, there’s another figure who’s also in the contest quite strangely, in his absence. He is Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
The 77-year-old former West Bengal CM’s failing health especially respiratory trouble in this Covid season has kept him away from the public stage. All that has come from him by way of intervention in this election season is a statement. He shot a single arrow, talking of “the unravelling of the Singur-Nandigram conspiracy”, and the irony of “the conspirators now fighting each other” in the silence of the graveyard.
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The Election Commission has deployed 793 companies of central armed security forces for the fourth phase. This is the highest-ever deployment in the ongoing polls in the State.
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Polling officials check EVMs and other materials at a distribution centre, on the eve of fourth phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, in Kolkata on April 9, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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The Election Commission has deployed 793 companies of central armed security forces for the fourth phase. This is the highest-ever deployment in the ongoing polls in the State.
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Five persons, including an 18-years old who went to vote for the first time, were killed during the fourth phase of polling in Bengal at Sitalkuchi, a tiny village in Cooch Behar district, around 137 km from Siliguri, on Thursday.
The Election Commission stopped voting at polling station number 126 in Sitalkuchi where four persons died in firing by Central forces.
Till 5pm, the total voter turnout in the state was reported at 76.16 per cent. The highest turnout of 79.73 per cent was registered in Cooch Behar district, followed by 76.2 per cent polling in Hoogly. In South 24 Parganas it was 75.49 per cent, while in Howrah it was 75.03 per cent and in Alipurduar 73.65 per cent, officials said.
From heavyweight leaders to celebrities, stakes are high in the fourth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections that will be held on Saturday. In Phase-IV, 44 constituencies from the districts of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Howrah, Hooghly and South 24 Parganas are going to polls. A total of 1,15,81,022 electorates will decide the fate of 373 candidates in this phase. Among the most high-profile contests, one is the Tollygunge constituency, where BJP has fielded Union Minister Babul Supriyo against sitting TMC MLA Aroop Biswas. Biswas, also a minister in the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal cabinet has been representing the Tollygunge Assembly constituency for the last three terms. Worth mentioning, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan campaigned for TMC candidate Aroop Biswas. CPI(M) has fielded Debdut Ghosh from the seat.