Nandigram (West Bengal) [India], April 1 (ANI): A vehicle belonging to media personnel was attacked near booth number 170 in Kamalpur, Nandigram on Thursday, as polling for the second phase of West Bengal Assembly elections was underway.
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Bengal, Assam record high voter turnout, Mamata s fate sealed
New Delhi, Apr 1 (UNI) Both West Bengal and Assam registered high voter turnout in the second phase of voting for Assembly elections on Thursday with 80.43 and 73.06 per cent polling recorded till 1800 hrs.
Of the 30 constituencies that went to polls today, included the high-profile Nandigram constituency of Purba Medinipur from where Trinamool chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is fighting the elections. To counter the TMC in its bastion, the saffron party has pitted Mamata s colleague-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari, who had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before the elections.
However, the voting was marred with sporadic violence in Bengal where nine seats of Paschim Medinipur, eight in Bankura, four seats in South 24 Parganas and nine seats in Purba Medinipur, totaling 30 seats, went for the polls.
Over 60 pc polling in Nandigram till 1400 hrs amid sporadic violence
Kolkata, Apr 1 (UNI) Amid elaborate security arrangements, the second phase of polling in West Bengal, including high voltage Nandigram constituency in Purba Midnapore district, recorded a high voter turnout of more than 60 per cent till 1400 hours.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Derek O Brien writes to EC alleging booth capture by BJP workers in Nandigram Assembly Constituency. Huge mob of BJP workers have entered booth no.s 6,7,49,27,162,21,26,13,262,256,163,20. BJP workers attempting to take control of EVM & rigging the booth, he wrore to EC.
Mr O’ Brien tweeted, “BJP and their mind games! Won’t work. Trinamool booth agents ROCK SOLID in 354 booths in #Nandigram. We have registered complaints about 10 specific booths. All attempts by CRPF to influence/intimidate voters not working. People determined to have @MamataOfficial as their MLA
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Nandigram: Mamata Banerjee Complains Of poll-rigging To Guv; EC Seeks Report, FIR Filed
Alleging voter suppression in West Bengal phase-2 polls, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday has dialled Governor Jagdeep Dhankar seeking his intervention in it
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Alleging voter suppression in West Bengal phase-2 polls, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday has dialled Governor Jagdeep Dhankar seeking his intervention in the issue. Banerjee, who is touring several booths across poll-bound Nandigram, is currently holed up in a school s election booth in Gokul Nagar complaining that people have not been allowed to vote. Several women are seen raising slogans of Jai Shree Ram against her, whom Banerjee has termed Outsiders from Bihar, UP .