West Bengal gears up for Phase-VI Assembly polls tomorrow ANI | Updated: Apr 21, 2021 12:55 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 21 (ANI): The West Bengal electoral battlefield is gearing up for the next bout of Khela as the sixth phase of voting for Assembly polls will be held on Thursday.
In Phase-VI, polling will be held in 43 constituencies in four districts to decide the fate of a total of 306 candidates including 27 women.
Among the 43 constituencies, nine are in Uttar Dinajpur, eight in Purba Bardhaman, nine in Nadia and 17 are in the North 24 Parganas district.
Over 1.03 crore voters including 50.65 lakh women and 256 of the third gender are there in this phase of the election. As many as 14,480 polling stations have been designated in the sixth phase.
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 12, 2021 01:08 PM
Kishanganj Police Station SHO Ashwini Kumar.
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The Goalpokhar (West Bengal) police initially resisted the registration of a murder case and wanted to register a case of unnatural death. An unnatural death case would have allowed the perpetrators of the crime to go scot free.
It was only after senior Bihar Police officers intervened that the Bengal Police agreed to register a murder case and carry out raids at Pantapara to nab the accused.
At a time when media and political attention remained focused on the deaths of four young men in firing by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at Sitalkuchi in north Bengalâs Cooch Behar district, the lynching of a police officer from Bihar in the Muslim-majority Uttar Dinajpur district of Bengal in the wee hours of Saturday (10 April) received scant attention.
Turncoats turn the tables on old-timers in West Bengal assembly elections
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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 01:42 PM IST
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The TMC, in its list of 291 candidates, has fielded around 16 turncoats who were either elected representatives of other parties or had joined the TMC over the last few years.
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The ruling TMC and the opposition BJP in Bengal might be pulling out all the stops to go for each other s jugular in the assembly polls, but the rivals share something in common when it comes to their choice of candidates in several high-profile seats - turncoats over tried-and-tested leaders. Once a reviled practice in the state, both the parties seem to have endorsed a record number of turncoats this time triggering a wave of discontentment among their loyalists.
Parties prefer turncoats over old-timers in Bengal
Parties prefer turncoats over old-timers in Bengal
Last Updated: Wed, Mar 17th, 2021, 14:59:20hrs
New Delhi: The ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengal might be pulling out all the stops to go for each other s jugular in the assembly polls, but the rivals share something in common when it comes to their choice of candidates in several high-profile seats turncoats over tried-and-tested leaders.
Once a reviled practice in the state, both the parties seem to have endorsed a record number of turncoats this time triggering a wave of discontentment among their loyalists.
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