West Bengal: BJP predicts Mamata govt's collapse in near future, TMC reacts sharply
July 16, 2023 18:20 ISTBJP MP Shantanu Thakur said the TMC government will not last beyond five months.
BJP MP Shantanu Thakur said the TMC government will not last beyond five months.
West Bengal Panchayat Election Results: पश्चिम बंगाल पंचायत चुनाव में TMC का बोलबाला. 35 हजार से ज्यादा सीटों पर जीत दर्ज.
West Bengal: A BJP fact-finding team arrived in West Bengal on Wednesday to visit areas hit by poll violence. The team said that they will also speak to victims to assess the ground situation.
West Bengal panchayat polls: Accusing the ruling TMC of manipulating the results, state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar warned that he will be opting for legal action in the matter.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose's statement has come in the wake of the violence which took place during the recently concluded Panchayat elections in the state.
The ruling TMC has won in 30,391 gram panchayat seats, besides leading in 1,767 seats, according to the SEC. Its nearest rival BJP has won 8,239 seats and is leading in 447 seats.
TMC gave ticket to 6 including Saket Gokhale for Rajya Sabha elections, Saket Gokhale who has gone to jail many times
Saket Gokhale, who is facing several cases, has been named among one of the six candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections from West Bengal.
The term of six MPs from West Bengal will end on August 18.
BJP national vice president Dilip Ghosh said had the central forces been deployed in sensitive areas, there would not have been so much violence. TMC hit back and said there is no guarantee that doing so would have prevented the violence.
West Bengal Panchayat poll was held on Saturday, however, the reports of violence and deaths dominated the headlines the entire day. Political parties including the TMC, BJP, and Congress said that they lost their supporters in the violence.
Anurag Thakur slammed Mamata Banerjee over the violence during the polling of the panchayat election and alleged that TMC considers ‘murders its guarantee to power’.
The ruling TMC, which said that it lost six of its supporters in the violence, accused the opposition of instigating violence and hit out at the central forces for their failure to provide security to the voters.
The panchayat elections in West Bengal, which witnessed pre-poll violence leading to deaths, will be held today amid tight security. The Governor has appealed to the people to come out in large numbers and cast their votes.
TMC has alleged that West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has never uttered a single word against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
BJP has expressed apprehensions that the TMC would attempt to rig panchayat polls on the voting day in West Bengal on July 8.
TMC called Prime Minister Narendra Modi the leader of the 'largest opposition party' and said that his party is opposed to nurturing democracy, preserving federalism.
Mamata Banerjee on Monday leveled massive allegations against the BSF stating that the force is 'threatening voters' not to vote in the border areas of the state. She also said that law and order is a state subject and the Centre has no role to play in it. The Force dubbed allegations as 'baseless'.
State Election Commissioner (SEC) Rajiva Sinha on Sunday met Governor CV Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan amid violent incidents in various parts of West Bengal ahead of the panchayat elections.
Mamata Banerjee will kickstart the panchayat poll campaign for the TMC candidates from Monday. The BJP and TMC indulged in a war of words following the development.
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