West Bengal panchayat polls: Amid allegations of rigging, counting of votes to happen Tuesday

By ANI

KOLKATA: The counting of votes for the high-stake West Bengal panchayat election will start on Tuesday at 8 am, a litmus check for Mamata Banerjee and BJP forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The voting course of concluded on Monday after the state election fee (SEC) mandated a re-polling as a consequence of reviews of violence at a number of polling stations on the primary day. Re-election befell at 696 stations throughout 19 districts, following the nullification of Saturday’s polling in these areas.

The determination to re-polling was prompted by allegations of poll field tampering and the incidence of violence, which tragically resulted within the lack of a minimum of 19 lives.

At first, votes for the Gram Panchayats will likely be counted, adopted by the Zilla Samitis after which the Zilla Parishads. All the counting centres could have an satisfactory deployment of central forces which will likely be monitored by CCTV cameras.

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, who had been conducting visits to districts affected by pre-poll violence, met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi in the present day. After the assembly, the Governor expressed optimism, stating that there will likely be mild on the finish of the tunnel and that good issues will occur sooner or later.

“The darkest hour is just before dawn. There will be light at the end of the tunnel. The only message I could get today is -if winter comes can spring be far behind? Good will happen in the days to come,” stated West Bengal Governor after his assembly with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

The BJP accused the State Election Commission (SEC) of not giving order for re-polling to the “thousands of booths” the place voting ought to have been carried out once more.

Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari stated he’ll transfer Calcutta High Court and can current proof collected by his occasion of alleged malpractice in a number of hundreds of cubicles throughout the polling on Saturday.

The West Bengal SEC has introduced that repolling will likely be held in 696 cubicles throughout the state, the place voting for the agricultural elections was declared void following reviews of vote-tampering and violence.

The panchayat elections have been held on July 8 underneath tight safety, with roughly 5.67 crore voters taking part and deciding the destiny of two.06 lakh candidates vying for 73,887 seats in rural areas of West Bengal.

However, the voting day was marred with widespread violence, looting of ballots papers and rigging. There have been reviews of sales space capturing, damaging of poll containers and assault of presiding officers from a number of districts similar to Murshidabad, Cooch Behar, Malda, South 24 Parganas, North Dinajpur and Nadia.

Reports additionally emerged of poll containers being set on fireplace and clashes between political events in numerous areas.

As a outcome, re-polling was carried out in 697 cubicles throughout 22 Zilla Parishads, 9,730 Panchayat Samitis, and 63,239 Gram Panchayat seats in 19 districts of the state. The re-polling course of was carried out underneath the supervision of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) with none reviews of violence.

The State Election Commission formally introduced the date for the re-polls and directed the District Panchayat Election Officer to arrange the polling stations accordingly.

During the preliminary polling, safety forces from the Centre and the state have been deployed in any respect 61,636 polling cubicles to make sure a good, protected, and neutral election. A big variety of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and State Armed Police (SAP) personnel have been deployed at delicate cubicles, whereas the remaining have been assigned safety duties together with native state police.

In one other incident, a poll field at a polling sales space in Baranachina of Dinhata in Cooch Behar district was set on fireplace allegedly by voters who have been offended with bogus voting that was reportedly occurring there.

Another incident was reported from Balutola in Gopalpur Panchayat of Malda the place a conflict broke out between Congress and TMC employees and bombs have been hurled whereas the polling sales space at Baravita Primary School in Sitai of Coochbehar additionally vandalised and poll papers have been set on fireplace.

Several different incidents of poll field and poll paper looting and destruction have been reported from quite a few polling cubicles within the State.

Speaking in regards to the repolls, a senior CAPF officer stated, “There were more than 14,000 sensitive polling booths but the state administration just mentioned about 4000 such booths that lead to violence at many places on Sunday. The deployment of CAPF was also not done appropriately.”

“The situation is completely different during re-polling as CAPF is deployed at all 696 polling booths and there is no information of violence from anywhere till 1 pm,” he added.

Senior officers monitored the state of affairs from management rooms via CCTVs and taking common updates from every polling sales space, knowledgeable one other CAPF officer. “We have deployed six-seven CAPF personnel at polling booths where violence had occurred and re-polling has been ordered,” the officer stated.

In 2018, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) gained uncontested, 34 per cent of the seats in panchayat elections, which additionally noticed varied cases of violence.

KOLKATA: The counting of votes for the high-stake West Bengal panchayat election will start on Tuesday at 8 am, a litmus check for Mamata Banerjee and BJP forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The voting course of concluded on Monday after the state election fee (SEC) mandated a re-polling as a consequence of reviews of violence at a number of polling stations on the primary day. Re-election befell at 696 stations throughout 19 districts, following the nullification of Saturday’s polling in these areas.

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At first, votes for the Gram Panchayats will likely be counted, adopted by the Zilla Samitis after which the Zilla Parishads. All the counting centres could have an satisfactory deployment of central forces which will likely be monitored by CCTV cameras.

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, who had been conducting visits to districts affected by pre-poll violence, met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi in the present day. After the assembly, the Governor expressed optimism, stating that there will likely be mild on the finish of the tunnel and that good issues will occur sooner or later.

“The darkest hour is just before dawn. There will be light at the end of the tunnel. The only message I could get today is -if winter comes can spring be far behind? Good will happen in the days to come,” stated West Bengal Governor after his assembly with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

The BJP accused the State Election Commission (SEC) of not giving order for re-polling to the “thousands of booths” the place voting ought to have been carried out once more.

Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari stated he’ll transfer Calcutta High Court and can current proof collected by his occasion of alleged malpractice in a number of hundreds of cubicles throughout the polling on Saturday.

The West Bengal SEC has introduced that repolling will likely be held in 696 cubicles throughout the state, the place voting for the agricultural elections was declared void following reviews of vote-tampering and violence.

The panchayat elections have been held on July 8 underneath tight safety, with roughly 5.67 crore voters taking part and deciding the destiny of two.06 lakh candidates vying for 73,887 seats in rural areas of West Bengal.

However, the voting day was marred with widespread violence, looting of ballots papers and rigging. There have been reviews of sales space capturing, damaging of poll containers and assault of presiding officers from a number of districts similar to Murshidabad, Cooch Behar, Malda, South 24 Parganas, North Dinajpur and Nadia.

Reports additionally emerged of poll containers being set on fireplace and clashes between political events in numerous areas.

As a outcome, re-polling was carried out in 697 cubicles throughout 22 Zilla Parishads, 9,730 Panchayat Samitis, and 63,239 Gram Panchayat seats in 19 districts of the state. The re-polling course of was carried out underneath the supervision of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) with none reviews of violence.

The State Election Commission formally introduced the date for the re-polls and directed the District Panchayat Election Officer to arrange the polling stations accordingly.

During the preliminary polling, safety forces from the Centre and the state have been deployed in any respect 61,636 polling cubicles to make sure a good, protected, and neutral election. A big variety of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and State Armed Police (SAP) personnel have been deployed at delicate cubicles, whereas the remaining have been assigned safety duties together with native state police.

In one other incident, a poll field at a polling sales space in Baranachina of Dinhata in Cooch Behar district was set on fireplace allegedly by voters who have been offended with bogus voting that was reportedly occurring there.

Another incident was reported from Balutola in Gopalpur Panchayat of Malda the place a conflict broke out between Congress and TMC employees and bombs have been hurled whereas the polling sales space at Baravita Primary School in Sitai of Coochbehar additionally vandalised and poll papers have been set on fireplace.

Several different incidents of poll field and poll paper looting and destruction have been reported from quite a few polling cubicles within the State.

Speaking in regards to the repolls, a senior CAPF officer stated, “There were more than 14,000 sensitive polling booths but the state administration just mentioned about 4000 such booths that lead to violence at many places on Sunday. The deployment of CAPF was also not done appropriately.”

“The situation is completely different during re-polling as CAPF is deployed at all 696 polling booths and there is no information of violence from anywhere till 1 pm,” he added.

Senior officers monitored the state of affairs from management rooms via CCTVs and taking common updates from every polling sales space, knowledgeable one other CAPF officer. “We have deployed six-seven CAPF personnel at polling booths where violence had occurred and re-polling has been ordered,” the officer stated.

In 2018, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) gained uncontested, 34 per cent of the seats in panchayat elections, which additionally noticed varied cases of violence.