By PTI
KOLKATA: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday seemed poised to brush to an enormous victory in violence-scarred rural polls in Bengal because the in a single day depend of ballots gave it an unassailable lead in outcomes declared until now by the State Election Commission.
The ruling TMC has received 34,359 gram panchayat seats, in addition to main in 752 seats, based on the SEC as of 8 am on Wednesday.
Its nearest rival BJP has received 9,545 seats and is main in 180 seats.
In all elections are being held for 63,229 gram panchayat seats.
The CPI( M) has received 2,885 and is main in 96 seats. The Congress received 2,498 seats and is main in 72.
The counting although largely peaceable was marred by stray incidents together with bombs being hurled in Bhangar, a spot the place there had been deaths within the run-up to election, resulting in firing by central forces and state police on Tuesday night time on an unruly mob which resulted in accidents together with on ISF supporters and policemen together with an IPS officer.
The ruling TMC received 6,134 Panchayat samiti seats whereas main 61 seats.
BJP has received 939 and is main in 149 seats, whereas CPI(M) has received 165 seats and is main in 14 others and Congress has received in 244 seats and is main in 7 seats.
Elections have been held for 9,728 Panchayat Samiti seats.
TMC has additionally received all 554 Zila Parishad outcomes declared thus far and is main in 201 others.
The BJP has in distinction received 19 and is main in 7 seats.
The CPI(M) has received 2 seats and is main in 2 extra seats, whereas Congress has received 4 and is main in 10.
In all, there are 928 Zila Parishad seats.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who had suffered an harm throughout campaigning thanked individuals for reposing belief in her on Tuesday night time.
“It’s TMC all the way in rural Bengal. I want to thank the people for their love, affection and support towards the TMC. This election has proved that only TMC resides in the heart of the people of the state,” Banerjee mentioned in a social media publish.
The elections are being seen by all events as an indicator of which approach the wind will blow within the 2024 parliamentary elections from this a part of the nation.
The violence which rocked the panchayat polls held on Saturday has claimed at the least 15 lives with 11 of them from the ruling TMC.
Since elections have been introduced final month, the quantity of people that died in poll-related incidents has been 33, with the ruling get together struggling 60 per cent of the deaths.
Allegations of vote tampering and violence by numerous events compelled the SEC to order re-polling in 696 seats on Monday, which handed kind of peacefully.
Intervention by the Calcutta High Court had seen the deployment of central police forces on each election and counting days.
Though Bengal has a protracted historical past of violent rural polls with 40 individuals killed in a single single day of polling throughout the 2003 panchayat elections, this yr’s violence which was coated extensively by the media targeted nationwide consideration on it.
ALSO READ | Fearing violence after panchayat ballot outcomes, individuals from Bengal flee to Assam
Governor CV Ananda Bose who had rushed to Delhi to present a report on the violence informed newspersons Tuesday “Political parties should realise elections are not grounds to examine one’s physical strength”.
Counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat polls to almost 74,000 seats which in addition to the gram panchayat seats, additionally contains 9,730 panchayat samiti seats and 928 zilla parishad seats, started at 8 am on Tuesday largely peacefully amid tight safety, officers mentioned.
Vote counting is on at 339 venues unfold throughout 22 districts and is prone to carry over to Wednesday.
The most variety of counting centres is in South 24 Parganas at 28, whereas the minimal is in Kalimpong at 4. Some northern districts are additionally dealing with inclement climate.
“Counting which began at 8 am yesterday continued overnight and will be completed today” an SEC official mentioned Wednesday.
In Darjeeling hills, out of the 598 seats in Darjeeling and 281 in Kalimpong, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) was main in lots of areas and appears prone to be the brand new numero uno within the Bengal hill districts.
ALSO READ | Tit for tat: TMC and BJP type fact-finding groups for Manipur, Bengal panchayat ballot violence
All the counting venues are manned by armed state police personnel and central forces, with prohibitory orders beneath Section 144 of CrPC being imposed exterior the venue to keep away from any untoward incidents.
There are a complete of 767 sturdy rooms throughout 22 districts. Large crowds of supporters of varied candidates gathered at numerous centres to make sure that counting was performed accurately.
In numerous districts, TMC supporters celebrated their victory by dancing and smearing one another with inexperienced color, the get together’s chosen color.
A complete of 5.67 crore individuals dwelling within the state’s rural areas have been eligible to determine the destiny of two.06 lakh candidates in 73,887 seats of the three-tier-panchayat system.
KOLKATA: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday seemed poised to brush to an enormous victory in violence-scarred rural polls in Bengal because the in a single day depend of ballots gave it an unassailable lead in outcomes declared until now by the State Election Commission.
The ruling TMC has received 34,359 gram panchayat seats, in addition to main in 752 seats, based on the SEC as of 8 am on Wednesday.
Its nearest rival BJP has received 9,545 seats and is main in 180 seats.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
In all elections are being held for 63,229 gram panchayat seats.
The CPI( M) has received 2,885 and is main in 96 seats. The Congress received 2,498 seats and is main in 72.
The counting although largely peaceable was marred by stray incidents together with bombs being hurled in Bhangar, a spot the place there had been deaths within the run-up to election, resulting in firing by central forces and state police on Tuesday night time on an unruly mob which resulted in accidents together with on ISF supporters and policemen together with an IPS officer.
The ruling TMC received 6,134 Panchayat samiti seats whereas main 61 seats.
BJP has received 939 and is main in 149 seats, whereas CPI(M) has received 165 seats and is main in 14 others and Congress has received in 244 seats and is main in 7 seats.
Elections have been held for 9,728 Panchayat Samiti seats.
TMC has additionally received all 554 Zila Parishad outcomes declared thus far and is main in 201 others.
The BJP has in distinction received 19 and is main in 7 seats.
The CPI(M) has received 2 seats and is main in 2 extra seats, whereas Congress has received 4 and is main in 10.
In all, there are 928 Zila Parishad seats.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who had suffered an harm throughout campaigning thanked individuals for reposing belief in her on Tuesday night time.
“It’s TMC all the way in rural Bengal. I want to thank the people for their love, affection and support towards the TMC. This election has proved that only TMC resides in the heart of the people of the state,” Banerjee mentioned in a social media publish.
The elections are being seen by all events as an indicator of which approach the wind will blow within the 2024 parliamentary elections from this a part of the nation.
The violence which rocked the panchayat polls held on Saturday has claimed at the least 15 lives with 11 of them from the ruling TMC.
Since elections have been introduced final month, the quantity of people that died in poll-related incidents has been 33, with the ruling get together struggling 60 per cent of the deaths.
Allegations of vote tampering and violence by numerous events compelled the SEC to order re-polling in 696 seats on Monday, which handed kind of peacefully.
Intervention by the Calcutta High Court had seen the deployment of central police forces on each election and counting days.
Though Bengal has a protracted historical past of violent rural polls with 40 individuals killed in a single single day of polling throughout the 2003 panchayat elections, this yr’s violence which was coated extensively by the media targeted nationwide consideration on it.
ALSO READ | Fearing violence after panchayat ballot outcomes, individuals from Bengal flee to Assam
Governor CV Ananda Bose who had rushed to Delhi to present a report on the violence informed newspersons Tuesday “Political parties should realise elections are not grounds to examine one’s physical strength”.
Counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat polls to almost 74,000 seats which in addition to the gram panchayat seats, additionally contains 9,730 panchayat samiti seats and 928 zilla parishad seats, started at 8 am on Tuesday largely peacefully amid tight safety, officers mentioned.
Vote counting is on at 339 venues unfold throughout 22 districts and is prone to carry over to Wednesday.
The most variety of counting centres is in South 24 Parganas at 28, whereas the minimal is in Kalimpong at 4. Some northern districts are additionally dealing with inclement climate.
“Counting which began at 8 am yesterday continued overnight and will be completed today” an SEC official mentioned Wednesday.
In Darjeeling hills, out of the 598 seats in Darjeeling and 281 in Kalimpong, the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) was main in lots of areas and appears prone to be the brand new numero uno within the Bengal hill districts.
ALSO READ | Tit for tat: TMC and BJP type fact-finding groups for Manipur, Bengal panchayat ballot violence
All the counting venues are manned by armed state police personnel and central forces, with prohibitory orders beneath Section 144 of CrPC being imposed exterior the venue to keep away from any untoward incidents.
There are a complete of 767 sturdy rooms throughout 22 districts. Large crowds of supporters of varied candidates gathered at numerous centres to make sure that counting was performed accurately.
In numerous districts, TMC supporters celebrated their victory by dancing and smearing one another with inexperienced color, the get together’s chosen color.
A complete of 5.67 crore individuals dwelling within the state’s rural areas have been eligible to determine the destiny of two.06 lakh candidates in 73,887 seats of the three-tier-panchayat system.
