The election in 34 constituencies in phase 7 of the elections for the West Bengal assembly went “peacefully” and recorded a turnout of 75.06 percent, the Indian electoral commission announced on Monday.
Voting began at 7:00 a.m. in 12,068 polling stations in Murshidabad, Paschim Bardhaman, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda and Kolkata districts.
Tratamool Congress Supremo Mamata Banerjee’s home turf Bhabanipur was one of these 34 seats. While she’s an MLA from that seat, this time she has opted for a competition in Nandigram.
Although the elections were relatively peaceful, there were some clashes between rival party officials in some parts of the state.
In Asansol, TMC candidate Sayoni Ghosh alleged that BJP activists tried to block stands in the constituency. However, the BJP said the allegations were baseless and Ghosh apologized to feel his defeat.
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There was excitement in the town’s Rash Behari constituency after the BJP candidate’s agent, Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha, Mohan Rao, was accused of molesting female voters at a polling station, police said. The agent was arrested after several women voters claimed he tried to pull her by holding her hands in the Bidya Bharati school, a police officer said. Rao denied the allegations, saying no such incident occurred.
In the constituency of Jamuria, Left Front candidate Aishe Ghosh claimed that agents from CPI-M were prevented from entering a booth by TMC workers, which the ruling party rejected.
10 points in the poll in phase 7 of the West Bengal elections:
1) Over 86 lakh The voters decided the fate of 284 candidates from 34 constituencies.
2) The 34 constituencies are divided into districts such as Murshidabad (nine seats), Paschim Bardhaman (nine seats), Dakshin Dinajpur (six seats), Malda (six seats) and Kolkata (four seats).
3) Phase 7 of In the elections for the West Bengal Assembly, the turnout was 75.06 percent. However, this is a preliminary number and was recorded at 5:00 p.m. while the poll was still running.
4) poll for two Assembly seats in Samserganj and Jangipur in Murshidabad District were annulled after the deaths of two candidates. The electoral commission set May 16 for voting in these two seats.
5) Under the constituencies On Monday it was about the election of Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur. She is the seated MLA from this seat and also a resident. This time, however, she denied Nandigram’s polls.
6) Veteran TMC Guide and State Power Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay is this time the party’s candidate from this seat. Chattopadhyay meets a seasoned actor but a greenhorn in electoral politics, Rudranil Ghosh, who left the ruling party a few months ago to join the BJP.
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7) While no violence During the poll it was reported that the electoral commission said 15 live bombs were found at the Ballygunge assembly headquarters with the help of a bomb squad and a fog squad. On a tip, with the help of the Bomb Disposal Squad, 19 raw bombs were recovered in two sacks near the Hooghly Jute Mill Colony.
Two malefactors carrying seven improvised, country-made weapons and a “single-barreled, long musket weapon” were arrested in the Malda district, the statement said.
8) The Electoral Commission had tightened security measures in the face of violence in previous phases, in particular the death of five people in Cooch Behar in the fourth round of elections on April 10. In the seventh phase, the electoral body deployed at least 796 companies from the central armed forces.
9) Campaigns for the The seventh phase was a reluctant affair after the electoral commission imposed restrictions following the second wave of Covid-19 cases in West Bengal.
10) In the meantime the commission has transferred a couple of cops on Monday. Shantanu Sinha Biswas, an inspector from the Economic Crime Directorate, was transferred to the DIG Jalpaiguri Range office as a detective inspector. He was accused by the BJP of manipulating postal ballot papers.
Asansol-Durgapur Police Department Deputy Superintendent Srimanta Kumar Bandopadhyay has been appointed as the new Bolpur Subdivision Police Officer. Nihar Ranjan Roy, the district inspector of Krishnaganj in Krishnanagar Police District, has been appointed as the new inspector for the Murshidabad Police Station, replacing Atish Das.
The eighth and final phase of the vote is scheduled for Thursday April 29th. The votes will be counted on Sunday May 2nd.
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