KMC polls: 7 Trinamool councillors got over 90% votes
According to the available data, seven councillors of Trinamool Congress got 90 per cent of the polled votes and 24 candidates managed to get more than 80 per cent votes.
According to the available data, seven councillors of Trinamool Congress got 90 per cent of the polled votes and 24 candidates managed to get more than 80 per cent votes.
A Left Front leader said the Left though believes that its ability to hold on to the second position in 65 wards out of 144, is in itself a sign that people of Kolkata retains their faith in the party but lamented that it could have bagged more seats had the “TMC not looted votes and unleashed violence to wreck the election.”
“It is a victory of democracy and the people. The election was held like a festival. People exercised their franchise peacefully.” “We promise to work even harder in the coming days. Other national parties also contested but they were all defeated. BJP, Left and Congress are nowhere. This is a mandate of the people, for the people, by the people"
"I am happy people voted peacefully. Kolkata Police is carrying out its duties efficiently,” Mamata Banerjee told reporters after casting her vote at the Mitra institute in Bhowanipore along with her nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday afternoon
In ward 114, CPIM’s polling agent was threatened while he was at home for lunch. He alleged that TMC workers gathered outside his residence and threatened him against stepping out and returning to the booth. CPIM candidate of ward 21 Sujata Saha had to be admitted to a hospital after being attacked at the Jorabagan KMC building allegedly by TMC men. The candidate has received injuries to her head and is undergoing treatment.
A war of words has ensued between Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Speaker Biman Banerjee over the approval to the Howrah Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which aims to carve out Bally Municipality in Howrah district from the jurisdiction of the Howrah Municipal Corporation.
We are happy with this list. Even if we don’t win, we will give a good fight because deserving candidates have been fielded,” said Mr Banerjee. The signal of a “good fight” will be difficult to digest for party loyalists for it suggests a degree of resignation after the rout in the Assembly election.
The Left Front, after much deliberation on the matter of fielding candidates, which included a possible seat-sharing understanding with the Congress, has eventually decided to field its own candidates in about 127 seats and spare 17 wards for “non-Left” candidates.
The focus would be on whether Firhad Hakim, chairman of the KMC board of administrators, Atin Ghosh, Debashish Kumar and Debabrata Majumdar, all councillors and board members would be considered for re-nomination for the 19 December polls.
Mr Das notified that nomination filing starts today and will continue till the first of December, which is also the last day for filing it. The time for nomination filing is from 11 am to 3 pm. This will be followed by a process of scrutiny that will take place on 2 December. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is 4 December and the date of polling is 19 December.
