Violence rocked the July 8 rural polls, leaving 15 dead while ballot boxes were vandalised, ballot papers burnt and bombs thrown at rivals in several places. Repolling was held on Monday in 696 booths across 19 districts where voting was declared void amid allegations of ballot box tampering and violence.
Senior Member of Parliament from the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), Derek O Brien has written to the chairman of the Standing Committee for Home Affairs demanding a discussion urgently on the situation of violence in Manipur.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Darjeeling MP Raju Bista on Saturday launched a scathing attack at TMC s trade union functionaries for staging a sit-in with tea garden workers in front of BJP legislators in North Bengal and said that they are misleading the workers.
Trinamool Congress leader Binoy Tamang quit the party on Wednesday, hours after the change of guard in Darjeeling Municipality, alleging that democracy in the town is under great threat now.