In First Electoral Test Post Split, BJP-Ajit Pawar Reigns In Maharashtra Gram Panchayat Polls oneindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oneindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Time for ?the mother of all democratic reforms? has come. Don?t look at it as a gimmick. It is a way of regulating measures for various irresponsible tendencies emerging in the Indian politics. Every democrat should support the idea of simultaneous polls to purge the politics from unscrupulous elements
The day also saw instances of booth capturing, damaging of ballot boxes and assault of presiding officers being reported from several districts such as Murshidabad, Cooch Behar, Malda, South 24 Parganas, North Dinajpur and Nadia.
Bharatiya Janata Party Leader Suvendu Adhikari has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking direction to deploy Central Forces to ensure fair and transparent elections of the three-tier gram panchayat system in West Bengal in view of the recent large-scale violence in West Bengal.