Polling is underway for the 9 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal in the seventh phase as we speak amid stories of poll-related violence and pressure surfacing from a number of pockets, together with Sandeshkhali, Bhangar, and 24 Parganas.
Polling is underway for the 9 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal in the seventh phase as we speak amid stories of poll-related violence and pressure surfacing from a number of pockets, together with Sandeshkhali, Bhangar, and 24 Parganas.
The violence began late evening on May 31 and continued until the start of the polling course of at 7 a.m.
Sandeshkhali beneath Basirhat Lok Sabha and Bhangar beneath Jadavpur Lok Sabha had been the epicentres of the strain.
Sandeshkhali
At Sandeshkhali, pressure began mounting late Friday evening as a bunch of native ladies got here out on the streets carrying bamboo sticks protesting in opposition to the alleged threats to their relations by native Trinamool Congress activists accompanied by the state police. The ladies additionally alleged that the native goons who had been behind such threats had been shut associates of now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan, who’s at present behind bars.
However, the state police have denied the allegations and stated that the strain flared up after some native BJP supporters had crushed up a pair of civic volunteers at Sandeshkhali.
The Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari and BJP Information Technology cell chief Amit Malviya shared the movies of the protesting ladies at Sandeshkhali. Launching scathing assaults in opposition to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee they accused her of unleashing the get together goons and state police in intimidating voters.
Bhangar
Similarly, pressure broke out in entrance of a polling sales space at Bhangar because the starting of the polling course of at 7 a.m. as we speak following clashes between Trinamool Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) activists. A girl AISF activist acquired head accidents following the clashes.
Earlier, the automobile of the AISF candidate Nur Alam Khan was vandalized allegedly by a bunch of Trinamool Congress activists.
24 Parganas
At sales space quantity 40, 41 in Kultai of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal, the gang allegedly threw the EVM and VVPAT machines right into a lake. According to data acquired from locals, voters had been allegedly threatened by TMC supporters, inflicting the gang to enter a frenzy and throw the EVMs into the lake.
The 9 Lok Sabha constituencies the place polls are being carried out as we speak are Kolkata-Dakshin and Kolkata-Uttar in Kolkata, Jadavpur, Jaynagar, Mathurapur and Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas and Basirhat, Barasat, and Dum Dum in North 24 Parganas.
The outstanding candidates whose destiny will probably be sealed as we speak embody Trinamool Congress’ basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee from Diamond Harbour, the face of the Sandeshkhali motion and the BJP candidate from Basirhat Rekha Patra and the CPI(M) central committee member Dr Sujan Chakraborty from Dum Dum.
Polls are underway beneath large safety preparations with 1,020 corporations of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) already in the state, out of which 978 corporations are being deployed on polling obligation and the remainder are being saved on reserve. A complete of 1,960 fast response groups (QRTs) have already been deployed all through the state to rapidly deal with stories of pressure.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA workers and is revealed from IANS)
