by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 7, 2021 12:03 PM
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Snapshot
In 2016, the Trinamool had won 30 of the 31 seats that went to polls in phase three yesterday.
This time around that number is set to decrease. Here s how it happened.
The third phase of polling for 31 seats spread across the South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Hooghly districts of West Bengal, on Tuesday, was marred by violence.
But what was significant about Tuesdayâs poll violence was that the Trinamool was at the receiving end at many places.
Trinamool candidates and functionaries who had allegedly tried to interfere in the poll process by storming polling booths with their supporters were repelled back by BJP supporters.
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The 31 seats going to polls on Tuesday in the third phase will decide whether the new political equation put forth by the CPM and agreed upon, albeit reluctantly, by the Congress will change Bengal’s political landscape.
In their struggle for existence, the two parties have held the hand of a religious leader from the minority community who keeps the skullcap on his head, but talks about education, jobs, Hindu-Muslim and Muslim-Dalit unity and not the dogma that he spewed till even a year ago.
The next phase of polls in parts of South 24-Parganas, Howrah and Hooghly does not have the high profile focus of the second phase that saw Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikary locking horns in Nandigram. But it will be watched for Indian Secular Front (ISF) chief Abbas Siddiqui, the newest entrant in Bengal’s politics who has latched on to two grand old parties: the Congress and the Left.
BJP chief J P Nadda on Saturday targeted DMK leaders for allegedly using what he called foul language against Dalits and dubbed the DMK and Congress as being synonymous with corruption. Accusing DMK leaders of using foul language recently against Dalits, late AIADMK matriarch Amma and women, he said it was very unfortunate. One could understand what respect they have for Dalits and women, he said here, addressing a poll rally canvassing support for BJP s H Raja, who is contesting the April 6 Assembly polls from Karaikudi Assembly segment. Such foul language was used while they were out of power and the way they would treat Dalits and women in the event of winning the polls is a million dollar question, he said.