Last year on this day Bengal’s ‘Ma-Mati-Manush’ showed courage against high and mighty: CM
The state government is launching a statewide fortnightly propaganda to showcase the successes of the different development schemes of the government.
The state government is launching a statewide fortnightly propaganda to showcase the successes of the different development schemes of the government.
Counting of votes polled in the West Bengal assembly elections began at 8 am on Sunday under tight security and strict adherence to safety protocols, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19.
Apart from the Axis My India-India Today and the Republic-CNX exit polls, which gave the BJP an edge in the battleground state, all other surveys, including the CVoter Exit Poll for Times Now/ABP News, forecast a third victory for the Trinamool, putting it ahead in the 294-member Assembly.
The Election Commission has already announced that 5,433 booths of the total 11,860 booths are extremely sensitive and so have deployed 24 general observers, nine expenditure observers, and nine police observers for the eighth phase of the polls.
Polling underway for penultimate phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections
According to the Election Commission, 70.42 percent of polling was recorded in the first six hours on Thursday. East Burdwan with more than 75 percent recorded the highest polling till 3 p.m.
In this phase election will be conducted in nine constituencies each in North Dinajpur and Nadia districts, 17 in North 24 Parganas and eight in East Burdwan where 10,409,948 electorate will decide the fate of 306 candidates among which 27 candidates are female.
On Saturday altogether 45 constituencies across six districts including Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Nadia, East Burdwan, and North 24 Parganas will go for the polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi came down hard on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of instigating people against central forces on election duty in the state.
45 Assembly segments will go to polls in the fifth phase which is scheduled for April 17. The sixth round for 43 seats would be held on April 22. 35 constituencies will go to polls in the seventh phase elections on April 26.
