: Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 8:35 AM IST
West Bengal polls: Mamata Banerjee urges to club last two phases together; EC seeks report on Cooch Behar killings
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Kolkata: After Chief Electoral Officer Sushil Chandra tested Covid positive, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee once again urged to club all the phases together.
Addressing several public rallies the TMC supremo said that how can the chief electoral officer monitor election while working from home and also that due to the rise in COVID-19 the ECI should club the last two phases together.
âCovid had even engulfed the Election Commission and how can they monitor elections while working from home? In keeping to the pandemic the ECI should club the last two phases together,â claimed Mamata Banerjee.
West Bengal Assembly election
West Bengal election 2021 LIVE updates: The fifth phase of the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 will be held on Saturday across 45 constituencies spread over six districts. The campaigning for the fifth phase ended at 6pm on Wednesday, as the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continued trading blows over the recent killings of four men by central security personnel at Cooch Behar s Sitalkuchi, where polls were held last Saturday. In Phase 5 of the West Bengal assembly elections six districts Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Nadia, North 24 Parganas, and Purba Bardhaman go into polls. As many as 319 candidates, including 39 women, are in the fray in this phase of the West Bengal assembly elections. One-fourth of the total candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The fifth phase is crucial for TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, since these a
A day before the fifth-phase of polling in Bengal, a Bengali song that spoke out against Fascism has found an echo in the hills of Darjeeling.
“Ma katai pani jaadina, yahi desh mai basnechhu (I won’t go anywhere else, I will live in this country),” says the Nepali song, almost literally translating the Bengali song in Nepali, and also sharing the visuals from the original. The Bengali song “Nijeder mote nijeder gaan (Our views, our songs) speaking out against the politics of hatred had created a flutter.
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In the Bengali version, Rabindranath Tagore’s 1923 play Raktakarabi (Red Oleanders) inarguably his strongest protest against authoritarianism and exploitation, had featured prominently. The Nepali version has been performed by Laaliguraas, meaning red rhododendrons, a socio-cultural organisation that has been at the spearhead against Fascism.
Updated Apr 14, 2021 | 13:30 IST
The deaths, all in Cooch Behar s Sitalkuchi, sparked a political slugfest in the politically volatile state, with the ruling TMC and BJP blaming each other for the violence. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: PTI
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday visited Cooch Behar that witnessed violence during the fourth phase of polling last week in which five people were killed including four in CISF firing.
The deaths, all in Cooch Behar s Sitalkuchi, sparked a political slugfest in the politically volatile state, with the ruling TMC and BJP blaming each other for the violence.
Image of a CISF soldier injured in a langur attack is passed off related to an attack by TMC worker
A post accompanying the image of an injured CISF soldier is being shared across social media platforms with a claim that the soldier has been attacked by TMC workers. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
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Claim: Image of CISF soldier injured in an attack by TMC workers.
Fact: The image actually shows a CISF soldier who got injured in a langur attack while he was on duty at the CISF camp at Bhimakanali in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. A Hindi regional news agency reported the same. The image has nothing to do with poll violence which took place in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar. Hence the claim made in the post is