While a wide range of reasons were attributed to the victory by the members of the public, the one name that kept cropping up over and again is that of Abhishek Banerjee, the All India Trinamool Congress general secretary and nephew of West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool founder Mamata Banerjee.
Political commentators point out that this is related to the fact that the Congress and the Left have been contesting elections together against Trinamool Congress (TMC), the ruling party in the state on the one hand, and the BJP at the Centre.
According to guidelines of the SEC, all candidates and political parties should take adequate measures to not use plastic as campaigning materials like posters and banners.
The officer is accused of tampering with the nomination documents of two candidates for the forthcoming panchayat elections.
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