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After three months of an incessant, high-pitch campaign by both West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bhartiya Janata Party’s leader Suvendu Adhikari, who switched over to BJP from TMC a few months before the polls, a very polarised Nandigram concluded its second phase of polling in the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021.
Incidents of sporadic violence and booth-jamming were reported from different districts of West Bengal as it went to the second phase of polling. A clash broke out between the BJP and TMC workers in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Wednesday and a TMC worker was allegedly stabbed to death in the Keshpur area on Thursday, while the polling was underway. The Election Commission of India sought a detailed report from the administration in connection with an incident that occurred in the Boyal area of Nandigram where CM Mamata had earlier paid a visit to oversee the situation.
Thirty constituencies in Bengal and 39 in Assam vote today.
Highlights
Suvendu Adhikari joined the BJP in December
The contest in Nandigram is now a prestige fight
Kolkata: Nandigram - the epicentre of the battle for Bengal - is voting today, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee toe-to-toe with her protege-turned-arch rival Suvendu Adhikari. Thirty constituencies in Bengal and 39 in Assam are voting.
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Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dialled Governor Jagdeep Dhankar from Nandigram today amid a face-off with BJP workers at a polling booth. Anything might happen at any moment… There is total breakdown of law and order with the people outside being in the area, she told the Governor.
: Saturday, March 13, 2021, 10:46 PM IST
Fight for West Bengal: Yashwant Sinha joins hands with Mamata Banerjee to give Modi-govt a handful
Veteran Bhartiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha (83), an avowed critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday. Sinha said he was returning to politics to save the country, which is going through extraordinary dark times. He said the ongoing West Bengal Assembly elections pose a threat to the country s freedom if the BJP wins this election.
Sinha raised several issues at the press meet today the ongoing farmers agitation and the border situation with China. He lambasted the Modi government. âThere is no one to stop the government s wrongdoing. The BJP during Atal ji s time believed in consensus but today s government believes in crushing and conquering. The Akalis, the BJD have left the BJP. Today, who is standing with BJP? Mr Sinha said.
Kolkata: Amid tense electoral battle between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the former leading with chief minister Mamata
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