WB Panchayat Election 2023 Voting Live: West Bengal is prepared for three-tier panchayat elections. Voting is being held on Saturday (July 8). The Bengal Panchayat elections to be held earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are being seen as a litmus check within the state. In these elections, votes are being forged for about 74,000 seats in Zilla Parishads, Panchayat Samitis and Gram Panchayats. The variety of voters to train franchise within the Panchayat elections is round 5.67 crore.
The marketing campaign for the Bengal Panchayat elections ended on Thursday (July 6) night. Many veterans together with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TMC Nationwide Common Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and Chief of Opposition Shubhendu Adhikari participated within the election marketing campaign. The notification for the election was issued final month on June 8. Since then, many individuals have misplaced their lives throughout the violence. A Congress employee died within the violence in Murshidabad on the eve of polling. On this approach the determine of victims of political violence reached 18.
A Congress employee was allegedly assaulted by unidentified individuals belonging to the ruling TMC in Raninagar block of Murshidabad district on Friday morning, a day earlier than polling, which led to his lack of life. The incident happened hours earlier than Governor CV Anand Bose arrived to conduct a tour of the violence-hit areas.
4 BJP staff have been injured in firing allegedly by TMC staff in Bamanhat-2 panchayat of Dinhata sub-division of Cooch Behar district on Thursday (July 6) night time. 822 central corporations have been to be deployed to conduct the elections, however solely 585 may attain until Friday afternoon.
Governor CV Anand Bose visited Murshidabad on Friday. He reached the district headquarters Berhampur by practice within the morning. Earlier, he went to Bhangar, Canning and Basanti in South 24 Parganas district and Coochbehar district, the place clashes happened. Governor Bose on Thursday alleged that the state’s Election Commissioner (SEC) Rajeev Sinha had did not carry out his duties in view of the panchayat elections.
The ambiance was seen calm in Chatra village bordering Bangladesh. Sitting BJP member of Chatra gram panchayat and candidate for this election too, was seen chatting with the supporters of his rival celebration TMC on the village sq. on Thursday, hours earlier than the tip of the election marketing campaign.
Some photos got here out concerning the election occasions. Safety personnel carried out a route march in Nadia on Friday. Polling officers gather EVMs and different election supplies at a distribution middle in South Dinajpur’s Balurghat. West Bengal Congress supporters participate in a protest demanding violence-free panchayat elections in Kolkata on Friday.
The Communist Occasion of India-Marxist on Friday demanded that ‘history-sheeters’ be taken into custody to stop any irregularities throughout the panchayat elections. The celebration alleged lack of transparency within the functioning of the State Election Fee. CPI(M) state secretary Mohammad Saleem stated that the State Election Fee ought to take steps to make sure free and truthful elections. Allow us to let you know that the counting of votes for the West Bengal Panchayat elections will happen on July 11.
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