Around 70.42 pc turnout recorded till 1545 hrs in Bengal Assy poll
Kolkata, Apr 22 (UNI) Barring some sporadic violence at Bijpur constituency in North 24 Parganas district, the sixth phase polling for 43 seats in West Bengal was peaceful with around 70.42 per cent turnout recorded till 1545 hours.
Official sources said Purba Bardhaman reported 75.20 pc, Uttar Dinajpur – 72.10 pc, Nadia – 74 pc and North 24 Parganas – 65.13 pc votes was polled so far.
With polling underway for the sixth phase of West Bengal Assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated that she cannot surrender the state to the two goons of Delhi .
Addresses a public rally in Dakshin Dinajpur district, Ms Banerjee said, I am not a player, but I know how to play. I was the best player in the Lok Sabha earlier. We cannot surrender our Bengal to two goons of Delhi.
Seated on an earthen dam under the scorching sun with his two grandsons, 70-year-old Robin Koyal of Patlikhanpur village in North 24-Parganas’ Hingalganj stares at the sky. The elderly farm labour is apprehending a “Kal Baisakhi” in the last fortnight of the Bengali calendar year.
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Roder tej barlei jhorer bhoy hoi. Gato bachoro tai hoyechilo (whenever the sun beats down, we apprehend a storm),” he tells this correspondent with a vacant look, referring to last year’s Cyclone Amphan that wreaked havoc and rendered him homeless.
Ten months after Amphan, when political parties are making promises galore to woo voters ahead of elections, impoverished Patlikhanpur village in the Sunderbans is no exception.