Kolkata, West Bnegal Edited By: C KrishnasaiUpdated: Jul 12, 2023, 07:31 AM IST
Activists and supporters of Trinamool Congress (TMC) defend occasion’s flags as they hang an even time the victory of the occasion in the West Bengal’s Panchayat elections on the outskirts of Kolkata on July 11, 2023. Photograph:(AFP)
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The election modified into marred with violence and on the least 15 other folks misplaced their lives. The polling physique had to issue re-elections on 696 booths on Monday amid allegations of ballotfield tampering.
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) pulled off a spectacular victory in West Bengal rural polls, as it established an unassailable lead over its rival Bhartiya Janata Celebration (BJP).
In accordance to the express Election Price’s records unless 10:30 pm on Tuesday, TMC modified into leading in 28,985 gram panchayat seats, the BJP won 7,764 seats, whereas the Communist Celebration of India (Marxist) won 2,409 seats and the Congress won 2,022 seats. The counting is aloof underway.
The elections had been vastly anticipated by many as they had been real looking the bell weather for the 2024 overall elections.
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The counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat polls, which seen a multi-entrance combat for 74,000 seats, started on Tuesday morning.
Violence all the diagram thru West Bengal
The election modified into marred with violence and on the least 15 other folks misplaced their lives. The polling physique had to issue re-elections on 696 booths on Monday amid allegations of ballotfield tampering.
The anxiousness modified into no diverse on Tuesday morning, as native media reported that bombs had been hurled reach a counting centre in Murshidabad and the police resorted to baton-fee to manipulate crowds in Howrah.
Mamata thanks other folks
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee thanked the other folks of West Bengal for the TMC’s huge acquire in the panchayat elections.
“It is TMC the entire potential in rural Bengal. I are attempting to thank the other folks for his or her like, affection, and reinforce against the TMC. This election has proved that fully TMC resides in the guts of the other folks of the express,” Banerjee acknowledged in a Facebook submit.
Senior TMC leader and Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee furthermore thanked the other folks of rural West Bengal for handing the occasion a spectacular victory.
Taking a dig on the leader of the opposition, BJP‘s Suvendu Adhikari, he acknowledged the advertising and marketing and marketing and marketing campaign of “No Vote to Mamata” has modified into into “Now Vote for Mamata”.
“Grateful to the other folks for changing Oppn’s ‘NO VOTE TO MAMATA’ advertising and marketing and marketing and marketing campaign to ‘NOW VOTE FOR MAMATA.’ With unwavering reinforce to #TrinamooleNaboJowar, we are going to absolutely hang a roaring mandate, paving the potential for LS elections. Bengal, I thanks for the entire like (sic),” he tweeted.
BJP blames TMC for violence
The BJP, alternatively, accused the express authorities of using violence to its advantage to acquire the elections.
“We don’t hang any hope from this election (panchayat election) after the roughly violence that took discipline earlier. Right here is never any longer a mandate because Mamta Banerjee’s goons forcefully acquired the polls done. The central security power modified into no longer allowed to reach, and there hang been no CCTVs in the polling stations. Now we hang misplaced in loads of centres by 2,4,24 votes. Our victory in West Bengal is that of us are approaching the facet road to defeat TMC,” West Bengal BJP Standard Secretary Agnimitra Paul acknowledged.
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