In West Bengal, CPM betting on youth power to deliver
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The CPM has fielded a bunch of fresh and young faces in the West Bengal assembly election, hoping to attract youth to the party that has lost considerable ground since the 2011 defeat to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.
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The CPM has fielded a bunch of fresh and young faces in the West Bengal assembly election, hoping to attract youth to the party that has lost considerable ground since the 2011 defeat to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. The party is banking on candidates such as Meenakshi Mukherjee (Nandigram), Srijan Bhattacharya (Singur), Aishe Ghosh (Jamuria) and Dipsita Dhar (Bally) as it builds a new line of young leaders to take it forward. A party leader said nearly 70% of its candidates this time are in the age group of 25-50 years.
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ECI team in Bengal: BJP demands more Central attention, TMC petitions against BSF
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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora and Election Commissioners Sushil Chandra and Rajiv Kumar arrived in West Bengal to review election preparedness, on Wednesday evening. The TMC and the BJP who are fighting a fierce electoral battle in the State met them on Thursday in an all-party meeting at a hotel in Kolkata.
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Among its list of demands, the BJP has asked for central observers, a review of voter lists and for early deployment of Central forces in the State.
NEW DELHI: From raising concerns over Burqa-clad voters to demanding Central forces be deployed in the State at least a month before the polls, the BJP in a seven-page note submitted to Election Commission officials on Thursday, has raised the pitch around free and fair elections in the State. The TMC, on the other hand, has asked the ECI to look into the behaviour of the Border Security Force t
KOLKATA: Ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Thursday met the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and alleged that the BSF is threatening people in the border areas of the state to cast their votes in favour of a particular political party.
The Border Security Force (BSF) is yet to issue a reaction to the TMC s allegation.
The full bench of the ECI, led by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, arrived in the state on Wednesday evening on a three-day visit ahead of the assembly polls, the dates of which are yet to be announced. We have informed the CEC and other ECI officials that the BSF is threatening voters in the border areas. We have received inputs that officers of the paramilitary force are visiting various villages and asking people to cast their votes in favour of a particular political party.
Denying TMC s baseless allegations, the Border Security Force said it is a professional border guarding force actively checking illegal infiltration and smuggling