Bengal, Assam record high voter turnout, Mamata s fate sealed
New Delhi, Apr 1 (UNI) Both West Bengal and Assam registered high voter turnout in the second phase of voting for Assembly elections on Thursday with 80.43 and 73.06 per cent polling recorded till 1800 hrs.
Of the 30 constituencies that went to polls today, included the high-profile Nandigram constituency of Purba Medinipur from where Trinamool chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is fighting the elections. To counter the TMC in its bastion, the saffron party has pitted Mamata s colleague-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari, who had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before the elections.
However, the voting was marred with sporadic violence in Bengal where nine seats of Paschim Medinipur, eight in Bankura, four seats in South 24 Parganas and nine seats in Purba Medinipur, totaling 30 seats, went for the polls.
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With reports coming in of several Trinamool and BJP supporters killed and injured in violence, polling is under way for the second phase of assembly polls in West Bengal. All eyes are on Nandigram, where large number of voters turned out in queues to vote. Nandigram is witnessing a clash of personalities â between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her ex-loyalist Suvendu Adhikari.
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Mamata Banerjee stayed in Nandigram the entire night on Wednesday to oversee her party agents preparing for the polls. All roads leading to Nandigram were sealed by security forces, to stop miscreants from entering the area. Twenty two companies of central armed police forces were posted to ensure peaceful polling in Nandigram. There was tension among Hindu and Muslim voters in several pockets.
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying that she got neither Maya (worldly goods) nor Ram (God).
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