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After three months of an incessant, high-pitch campaign by both West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bhartiya Janata Party’s leader Suvendu Adhikari, who switched over to BJP from TMC a few months before the polls, a very polarised Nandigram concluded its second phase of polling in the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021.
Incidents of sporadic violence and booth-jamming were reported from different districts of West Bengal as it went to the second phase of polling. A clash broke out between the BJP and TMC workers in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Wednesday and a TMC worker was allegedly stabbed to death in the Keshpur area on Thursday, while the polling was underway. The Election Commission of India sought a detailed report from the administration in connection with an incident that occurred in the Boyal area of Nandigram where CM Mamata had earlier paid a visit to oversee the situation.
Clashes and drama at Nandigram; Mamata stranded at booth, dials Guv for rescue
Published : Apr 2, 2021, 4:40 am IST
Updated : Apr 2, 2021, 7:01 am IST
80 percent voting in second phase despite violence, allegations of booth capturing
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives at a polling station during the second phase of West Bengal Assembly Polls, at Boyal in Nandigram. (Photo: PTI)
Kolkata: Despite prohibitory orders issued under Section 144 of the CrPC, massive presence of Centre-ordered paramilitary forces and aerial surveillance by the Election Commission, Nandigram the hot seat in West Bengal Assembly elections where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is taking on her protege-turned-adversary Suvendu Adhikari reeled under violence on Thursday, leaving Ms Banerjee stranded at a polling booth for over two hours.
Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh has been PM Modi s constituency since 2014. (File)
Kolkata:
Stung by Prime Minister Narendra Modi s comment on Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee looking for a second constituency because she was afraid of losing in Nandigram, the Trinamool Congress returned fire with a reference to Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency. Didi is winning Nandigram. The question of her fighting from another seat doesn t arise. Narendra Modi ji, retract from your efforts to mislead people before they see your lies with the end of nomination in West Bengal. Look for a safer seat in 2024, as you will be challenged in Varanasi, said Bengal s ruling party in a tweet last night.
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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Thursday that Central forces deployed in her constituency were helping the BJP under instructions of Union Home Minister Amit Shah hours after she was holed up in a polling booth to look into allegations of rigging.
Mamata alleged that the Election Commission was following instructions of Shah and not acting on complaints of alleged irregularities that she and her party had lodged. She also threatened to move court. The CRPF, BSF are acting under the instructions of Home Minister Amit Shah..they are only helping the BJP, she told reporters outside a polling station in Nandigram constituency, according to PTI.