Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, blocked on Twitter by Mamata Banerjee, nonetheless tweeted an invitation to the Chief Minister today for a discussion.
Union minister V Muraleedharan alleged that his convoy was attacked by Trinamool goons .
West Midnapore:
Union minister V Muraleedharan has alleged that his convoy was attacked by goons of Bengal s ruling Trinamool Congress during his visit to the state. The minister posted a video on Twitter. His tweet coincided with the visit of a four-member Central fact-finding team. The team, led by an additional secretary, was sent to the state by the Union Home Ministry to look into reasons for the post-poll violence that broke out since the counting of votes on Sunday.
The caption accompanying the minister s tweet read, TMC goons attacked my convoy in West Midnapore, broken windows, attacked personal staff. Cutting short my trip .
West Bengal voted in marathon eight phases to elect 292 MLAs to the 294-member state Assembly between March 27 and April 29 in the shadow of the devastating second wave of coronavirus. Bypolls to the remaining two seats was necessitated following the death of two candidates due to Covid. Bengal was part of the first major set of elections, after the polls in Bihar, that were held amid an unprecedented crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Thirty assembly constituencies in five districts voted in the first phase on March 27 and thirty constituencies from four districts voted in the second phase on April 1. The third phase, held on April 6, saw elections in 31 constituencies while 44 seats were up for grabs in the fourth phase on April 10. 45 constituencies voted in the fifth phase on April 17 and 43 constituencies in the sixth phase on April 22. The seventh phase saw 36 constituencies voting on April 26 with 35 constituencies voting in the eighth and the final phase on Ap