West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is more autocratic than CPI(M) leaders, former Union minister and BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad told mediapersons here on Wednesday.Prasad arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday as part of the four-member .
a total of 69.85-per cent voter turnout was recorded till 5 pm in 696 booths in 19 districts of west bengal, where polling for the panchayat elections was declared void, officials said. no major incident was reported in the repolling ordered by the state election commission (sec) on sunday evening amid allegations of tampering with ballot boxes and the violence that left 15 people dead, they said. the repolling started at 7 am amid tight security with four central forces personnel deployed in each booth,
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday vowed to crack down on the growing violence in the state, which has marred the ongoing panchayat elections.
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