Violence that left 15 people dead and allegations of vote tampering had marred the three-tier panchayat elections held on Saturday, forcing the SEC headed by Rajiva Sinha to order a repoll in affected booths in all but three districts of Bengal.
Seventeen of the dead, including seven who died on Saturday, were from TMC, a point the ruling party emphasised as it sought to deflect most of the blame for the bloodshed on the Opposition
The Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and CPM leader Shamik Lahiri heavily criticized the State Election Commission (SEC) today for its "failure" to control violence
India News: Central forces could be deployed in less than a fourth of the 61,636 booths after 678 of the 822 companies requisitioned from the Centre reached the s