The car of BJP’s Keshpur candidate Pritish Ranjan Konar, along with three vehicles of media persons, were attacked by stones, brickbats and sticks allegedly by Trinamul supporters at Baruna village under the constituency in West Midnapore on Thursday.
Keshpur was one of the 30 Assembly constituencies that went to polls on phase two of Bengal elections.
Police have arrested nine persons in this regard. The Election Commission sought a detailed report on the incident.
BJP sources said Konar, who is pitted against Trinamul’s Shiuli Saha in Keshpur, was told in the morning that Trinamul workers had captured a booth in Gunara village of Keshpur. He was headed there when he was allegedly waylaid by 40-odd Trinamul workers near Baruna.
Mamata Banerjee criticised the Election Commission’s “inaction” on a day voting was marked by two deaths, sporadic violence, complaints of electoral malpractices and a high turnout, while the BJP welcomed the “free and fair” polling.
By 5pm on Thursday, some 80.43 per cent polling had been recorded in the 30 seats spread across four districts that voted in the second phase of the eight-phase Bengal Assembly polls.
“Since voting will continue till 6.30pm, the figure is expected to rise. The turnout is on the higher side; normally 80-82 per cent polling is seen in these areas,” a senior government official said.
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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.
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