Bankura in Junglemahal, where bullets used to rule once, witnessed preference for ballots today that recorded 82 per cent polling till 5 p.m. in one segment.
Subhas Sarkar from the BJP, Arup Chakrabarty from the AITC, and Nilanjan Dasgupta from the CPI(M) are set to contest against each other for this key seat.
Residents of Santhal villages in Ranibandh, Bankura, struggle due to deprivation of government welfare schemes like Awas, Lakshmir Bhandar, and MGNREGA, despite some infrastructure developments. Van Dhan Vikas Yojana for forest dwelling tribal population is a component of the mechanism for marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) through Minimum Support Price (MSP) and development of value chain for MFP.
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