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
The former Congress president will start the campaign after four phases of polling has ended in the state where the party is contesting on 92 seats in alliance with the Left.
Election officials said a report on the incident has been sought from the district officials.
BJP`s IT cell chief Amit Malviya claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee`s election strategist Prashant Kishor had accepted the BJP`s victory.
Interestingly women voters will become the deciding factor in the West Bengal`s South 24 Parganas district in this phase. Cumulatively the number of female voters in the district`s 11 constituencies are more than their male counterparts.
The new EC notice, issued on Thursday night, has asked the chief minister to submit her written explanation to the commission before 11 a.m. on April 10
